John Johnson, MD
Neurological Surgery · Huntsville, ALNPI 1477554517
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $221,029 of the $249,888 with a category attached, or 88.5%. Precision Spine, Inc. accounts for 83.6% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among neurological surgery clinicians in AL 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.
Across 64 payments — averaging $3904.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Precision Spine, Inc.$209K
- Globus Medical$37K
- Curiteva, Inc.$3K
- Medtronic$289
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$281
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$140
- plus $173 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$221,02988%
- Consulting fees$25,40010%
- Travel & lodging$1,0040%
- Food & beverage$2,4551%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 37 | $208,976 |
| Globus Medical | 11 | $37,264 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 5 | $2,766 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $289 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 5 | $281 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $140 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Trackx Technology, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Osteomed LLC | 1 | $17 |
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.
- REFORM POCT SYSTEM$129,783
- Reform Poct$63,973
- REFORM TI CT MODULAR MIS PEDICLE SCREW SYSTEM$54,520
- PROVIDENCE$37,151
- REFORM TI MODULAR$4,705
- Vault C$2,617
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$289
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$279
- Other - Miscellaneous$198
- Spinal-Stim Osteogenesis Stimulator$137
- Cervical-Stim Osteogenesis Stimulator$137
- Excelsius - GPS$112
How this compares
$249,888 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 97 neurological surgery providers in Alabama.
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 | 60 | $1,306 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 37 | $552 |
| Methocarbamol | 22 | $226 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 28 | $137 |
| Methylprednisolone | 12 | $107 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 16 | $53 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Huntsville
- Cheng TaoHuntsville$236K
- Joel PickettHuntsville$72K
- Jason BanksHuntsville$65K
- Sanat DixitHuntsville$5K
- Rhett MurrayHuntsville$4K
- Moneeb EhteshamHuntsville$3K
- Thomas OstergardHuntsville$2K
- Mark HadleyBirmingham$104K
- Andrew ErwoodBirmingham$85K
- Marshall HollandBirmingham$81K
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.