Frank Johnston
Vascular Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1568825016
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (41.5%), grants and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 30 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 37.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $6,077 and has fallen 54.0% since, to $2,796 in 2025.
Across 216 payments — averaging $88.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$7K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$5K
- Penumbra, Inc.$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Bolton Medical Inc$769
- AbbVie$335
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$6,75035%
- Travel & lodging$2,59314%
- Food & beverage$7,94541%
- Education$1,86810%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 8 | $7,182 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 72 | $4,941 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 6 | $2,103 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 10 | $1,467 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 13 | $769 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 19 | $335 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $305 |
| Endologix LLC | 3 | $286 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 15 | $280 |
| Stryker | 11 | $270 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 12 | $190 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $140 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $139 |
| CSL Behring | 9 | $138 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Axogen | 4 | $100 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $46 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $44 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $43 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $25 |
| Baylis Medical Technologies Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $19 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Abbott | 1 | $13 |
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.
- ENDURANT IIS$6,964
- Indigo System$1,399
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,189
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$1,100
- Smart Coil$662
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$542
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$528
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$443
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$385
- GORE-TEX Vascular Graft$312
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$192
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$180
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$147
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis$144
- HEMOBLAST$140
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin$134
- Cardiva VASCADE MVP VVCS 6-12F$125
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$109
- HawkOne$100
How this compares
$19,156 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 347 vascular surgery providers in Texas.
Other vascular surgery in Dallas
- Gregory PearlDallas$2.3M
- Stephen HohmannDallas$499K
- Michael SiahDallas$392K
- Carlos TimaranDallas$231K
- Dennis GableDallas$211K
- Alton BurnsDallas$98K
- John EidtDallas$88K
- Babafemi PrattDallas$87K
- Marc SalhanickDallas$84K
- Bradley GrimsleyDallas$78K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.