Has John Mitchell, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,939 in general payments to John Mitchell, MD across 52 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 John Mitchell, 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 John Mitchell, 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.

John Mitchell, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Provo, UTNPI 1699781674

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bolton Medical Inc at 37.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,589, 8.0 times the $198 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in UT, where the typical reported total is $4,101.

$3,939in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 52 payments — averaging $75.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Bolton Medical Inc$1K
Boston Scientific$952
Edwards Lifesciences$514
Medtronic$424
Abiomed$288
Abbott$171
plus $128 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,31159%
Food & beverage$1,62941%

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
Bolton Medical Inc	2	$1,462
Boston Scientific	7	$952
Edwards Lifesciences	18	$514
Medtronic(2 entities)	13	$424
Abiomed	4	$288
Abbott	2	$171
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$41
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$31
Zimmer Biomet	1	$26
Atricure, Inc.	1	$18
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	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.

How this compares

$3,939 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 46 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Utah.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$173,785

Medicare patients

111

Services billed

282

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.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Provo

Ulysse McCannProvo$1K
James DaneProvo$728
Brent BowlesSt George$69K
Jason GlotzbachSalt Lake City$45K
Spencer MelbyOrem$30K
Charles NeedhamSt George$18K
John DotyMurray$18K
Reilly HobbsMurray$15K
Ganesh KumpatiSalt Lake City$14K
John StringhamSalt Lake City$14K

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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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