Laura Johnson, MD
Surgery · Atlanta, GANPI 1407014319
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $6,531 of the $9,114 with a category attached, or 71.7%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 84.3% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,721, more than ten times the $15 reported in 2020.
Across 34 payments — averaging $268.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$8K
- Polymedics Innovations Inc.$853
- Polynovo North America LLC$336
- Medtronic$162
- ETS Wound Care LLC$29
- Medline Industries LP$20
- plus $33 from 2 others
Across 70 payments — averaging $1523.96 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Polynovo North America LLC$82K
- Polarityte, Inc.$25K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,53172%
- Travel & lodging$8269%
- Food & beverage$1,67618%
- Education$801%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 10 | $7,681 |
| Polymedics Innovations Inc. | 16 | $853 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $336 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $162 |
| ETS Wound Care LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $20 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Versajet$7,357
- Novosorb BTM$250
- Signia$162
How this compares
$9,114 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 855 surgery providers in Georgia.
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 | 32 | $331 |
| Mupirocin | 12 | $171 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 46 | $152 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Atlanta
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- Ankit PatelAtlanta$217K
- Kevin NguyenAtlanta$161K
- Nathaniel LytleAtlanta$118K
- David ParkAtlanta$112K
- Dominic PapandriaAtlanta$60K
- Kenneth NewellAtlanta$50K
- Marwan KazimiAtlanta$33K
- Charles ProcterAtlanta$27K
- Vishwanath DanthuluriAtlanta$27K
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.