James Johns, MD
Family Medicine · Canton, OHNPI 1770589863
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 435 payments — averaging $16.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$1K
- AbbVie$774
- Novo Nordisk$659
- Lilly USA, LLC$618
- Merck$470
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$443
- plus $3K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,95898%
- Education$1152%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 39 | $1,191 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 51 | $774 |
| Novo Nordisk | 44 | $659 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 40 | $618 |
| Merck | 36 | $470 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 23 | $443 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 38 | $440 |
| Pfizer | 29 | $373 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 25 | $338 |
| Bayer | 19 | $329 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 26 | $301 |
| Exact Sciences | 8 | $159 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 8 | $146 |
| Novartis | 7 | $137 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $111 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 4 | $86 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $80 |
| Amgen | 5 | $73 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 2 | $37 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $35 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $26 |
| Vertex | 1 | $21 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| GSK | 1 | $12 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$7,073 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,983 family 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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 76 | $91,151 |
| EliquisApixaban | 85 | $82,467 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 66 | $81,173 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 48 | $36,250 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 46 | $34,589 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 15 | $34,395 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 11 | $22,948 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 25 | $15,831 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 15 | $15,588 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 13 | $14,397 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 18 | $11,254 |
| Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide | 12 | $9,326 |
| Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 17 | $8,511 |
| InvokanaCanagliflozin | 12 | $6,813 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 11 | $6,353 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $659 | $115,56881 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $338 | $91,15176 claims |
| PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid | $373 | $83,897102 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto, Invokana | $301 | $41,40258 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $12 | $36,25048 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $137 | $15,58815 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $443 | $14,39713 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere | $1,191 | $11,25418 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 3,983 family medicine providers in Ohio.
Other family medicine in Canton
- Michael ButcherCincinnati$18.3M
- William RandallKettering$7.5M
- Paul NugentCincinnati$4.9M
- Steve ChoiDayton$4.8M
- Martin SchearDayton$2.2M
- Rajesh DavitCincinnati$2M
- Kwabena OtengSpringdale$2M
- Blaise GattoMoraine$1.8M
- Cathy GreiweColumbus$1.4M
- Brian BeesleyColumbus$1.4M
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.