Has Douglas Johnston, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $204,873 in general payments to Douglas Johnston, MD across 329 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Douglas Johnston, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Douglas Johnston, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Douglas Johnston, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Chicago, ILNPI 1790957991

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $127,423 of the $204,873 with a category attached, or 62.2%. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 62.8% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$204,873in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 329 payments — averaging $622.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$129K
Medtronic$44K
Bolton Medical Inc$12K
Abbott$7K
Arthrex$3K
Artivion, Inc.$2K
plus $9K from 15 others

$1,141,831in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 216 payments — averaging $5286.25 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Edwards Lifesciences$1M
Medtronic$64K
Artivion, Inc.$34K
Livanova USA, Inc.$27K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$127,42362%
Speaking & faculty fees$26,09013%
Travel & lodging$27,69214%
Food & beverage$23,06811%
Education$6000%

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
Edwards Lifesciences	155	$128,698
Medtronic	67	$43,863
Bolton Medical Inc	22	$11,752
Abbott	7	$6,622
Arthrex	15	$2,621
Artivion, Inc.	4	$2,426
Atricure, Inc.	12	$1,910
Livanova USA, Inc.	5	$1,889
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	15	$1,604
Masimo Corporation	6	$1,060
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc	3	$679
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$500
Abiomed	4	$381
Zimmer Biomet	2	$265
Corcym Inc	3	$224
Nexus Medical Technologies LLC	2	$191
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	2	$52
Dilon Technologies, Inc.	1	$47
Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC	1	$42
Covidien LP	1	$36
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	1	$10

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.

INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$31,475
Avalus$18,431
Relay Plus$10,575
Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$5,525
ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$2,400
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$2,089
Perceval$1,929
CARDIOBLATE GEMINI$1,432
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$1,352
Penditure$932
MitraClip$835
Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$774
Patient SafetyNet System$732
SET and rainbow SET$624
SedLine$624
Grafts$600
Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring$499
EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system$401
TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$336
STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$265

How this compares

$204,873 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 220 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$263,580

Medicare patients

Services billed

333

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.

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Husam BalkhyChicago$129K
Christopher SalernoChicago$124K
Duc PhamChicago$114K
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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.

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