Scott Johnson, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Milwaukee, WINPI 1821438375
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $6,800 of the $10,201 with a category attached, or 66.7%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 79.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $4,956 and has fallen 73.2% since, to $1,326 in 2025.
Across 34 payments — averaging $300.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$8K
- Philips North America LLC$1K
- Medtronic$174
- Intuitive Surgical$171
- Davol Inc.$166
- Abbott$156
- plus $180 from 3 others
Across 26 payments — averaging $3258.99 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.
- Atricure, Inc.$85K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,80067%
- Travel & lodging$1,55915%
- Food & beverage$1,84318%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 18 | $8,063 |
| Philips North America LLC | 7 | $1,291 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $174 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $171 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $166 |
| Abbott | 1 | $156 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $120 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $39 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
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.
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$7,656
- (9124) LM Undivided$1,123
- CoreValve Evolut$169
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$166
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$162
- Epic$156
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$151
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$126
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$120
- GlideLight$118
How this compares
$10,201 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 97 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Wisconsin.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin | 14 | $11 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Milwaukee
- Mario GasparriMilwaukee$516K
- David DemosMilwaukee$446K
- William TisolMilwaukee$339K
- Paul SeifertMilwaukee$31K
- Lucian DurhamMilwaukee$30K
- Goya RaikarMilwaukee$17K
- John CrouchMilwaukee$15K
- Andrew LinMilwaukee$14K
- Lyle JoyceMilwaukee$14K
- Austin RogersMilwaukee$13K
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.