Has Eric Johnson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,653 in general payments to Eric Johnson, MD across 32 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 Eric Johnson, 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 Eric Johnson, 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.

Eric Johnson, MD

General Surgery · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1811949498

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,814 of the $5,653 with a category attached, or 67.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 65.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among general surgery clinicians in MN 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.

$5,653in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $176.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$4K
Stryker$1K
Steris Corporation$342
Johnson & Johnson$123
Davol Inc.$88
Covidien LP$77

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,81467%
Food & beverage$1,83032%
Gifts$90%

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
Intuitive Surgical	17	$3,705
Stryker	10	$1,318
Steris Corporation	2	$342
Johnson & Johnson	1	$123
Davol Inc.	1	$88
Covidien LP	1	$77

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.

How this compares

$5,653 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 61 general surgery providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$82,504

Medicare patients

127

Services billed

249

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
Oxycodone Hcl	16	$46

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other general surgery in Minneapolis

Carter LebaresMinneapolis$375
Jonathan GaleMinneapolis$0
Mary ColbertMinneapolis$0
Torfi HoskuldssonMinneapolis$0
Vanessa HumphrevilleMinneapolis$0
Kyle WahlstromSaint Paul$3K
Marisa ChristiniaFergus Falls$910
Sarah StorrsSaint Paul$0
Nicole LyonsSaint Paul$0
Elizabeth TaclSaint Cloud$0

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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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