Daniel Johns, MD
Pain Medicine · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1376907782
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $20,000 of the $21,681 with a category attached, or 92.2%. Boston Scientific accounts for 95.4% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $20,147 and has fallen 98.2% since, to $364 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 59 payments — averaging $367.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$21K
- Abbott$144
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$126
- Nevro Corp.$118
- Medtronic$96
- AbbVie$64
- plus $442 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$20,00092%
- Food & beverage$1,6818%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 18 | $20,691 |
| Abbott | 1 | $144 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 3 | $126 |
| Nevro Corp. | 6 | $118 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $96 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $64 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $53 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $35 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Biogen | 1 | $24 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Cala Health, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$20,000
- ETERNA$144
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$134
How this compares
$21,681 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 245 pain medicine providers in Ohio.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 324 | $4,884 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 294 | $4,372 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 191 | $4,180 |
| Pregabalin | 152 | $3,774 |
| Buprenorphine | 23 | $3,561 |
| Lidocaine | 28 | $2,071 |
| Celecoxib | 46 | $1,937 |
| Methocarbamol | 101 | $1,422 |
| Naloxone Hcl | 25 | $1,405 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 89 | $1,279 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 62 | $1,079 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 152 | $918 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 78 | $871 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 79 | $650 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 74 | $420 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Cincinnati
- Aarti SinglaCincinnati$22K
- Gururau SudarshanCincinnati$20K
- Zeeshan TayebCincinnati$17K
- Atul ChandokeCincinnati$11K
- Charles BellamyCincinnati$10K
- Laura DevitaCincinnati$9K
- Siu Fung ChanCincinnati$9K
- Shuchita GargCincinnati$7K
- Alexander EscobarToledo$638K
- Nagy MekhailCleveland$511K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.