John Vermillion, MD
Trauma Surgery · Montgomery, ALNPI 1659454254
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $78,992 of the $87,139 with a category attached, or 90.7%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 71.9% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $34,566 and has fallen 96.3% since, to $1,296 in 2025. Among trauma 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 139 payments — averaging $626.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$63K
- Applied Medical Resources Corporation$13K
- Johnson & Johnson$4K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$3K
- Z-medica, LLC$3K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$464
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$78,99291%
- Travel & lodging$5,6606%
- Food & beverage$2,4873%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 37 | $62,637 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 36 | $12,727 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 11 | $3,551 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 7 | $3,413 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 3 | $3,097 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $464 |
| Acell, Inc. | 3 | $234 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $185 |
| Merck | 6 | $134 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 6 | $109 |
| Vertex | 4 | $102 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $70 |
| Stryker | 1 | $60 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 4 | $52 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $50 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $31 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $15 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| TEI Biosciences 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.
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$46,209
- VISTASEAL$46,209
- Enseal X1$39,643
- STRATAFIX$39,643
- Enseal$9,665
- Harmonic$9,665
- Mega Soft$9,665
- DERMABOND$6,567
- ETHICON$6,313
- INTEGRA$3,196
- OMNIGRAFT$3,048
- QuikClot$3,000
- Control+$3,000
- STAPLING$2,250
- STAPLER$1,350
- VOYANT$750
- Gelport Laparoscopic System$703
- FIOS ADVANCED FIXATION$600
- KII FIOS$600
- SIMSEI LAPAROSCOPIC TRAINER$375
How this compares
$87,139 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 26 trauma 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.
Other trauma surgery in Montgomery
- John HolcombBirmingham$45K
- Jan JansenBirmingham$18K
- Charles ButtsMobile$13K
- James HwangBirmingham$13K
- Rony NajjarHuntsville$13K
- Maryann MbakaMobile$11K
- William HewgleyBirmingham$10K
- Christopher KinnardMobile$7K
- Jeffrey WalkerHuntsville$5K
- Jonathan BlackBirmingham$4K
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.