Steven Johnson
Interventional Pain Medicine · Anchorage, AKNPI 1710963681
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 124 payments — averaging $22.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$563
- Abbott$439
- Medtronic$393
- Nevro Corp.$238
- Avanos Medical$220
- Pfizer$122
- plus $839 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,814100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 27 | $563 |
| Abbott | 19 | $439 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 20 | $393 |
| Nevro Corp. | 8 | $238 |
| Avanos Medical | 3 | $220 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $122 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $118 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 4 | $90 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| Eisai Inc. | 5 | $68 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 4 | $64 |
| Amgen | 3 | $64 |
| Piramal Critical Care | 4 | $64 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 2 | $41 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $29 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $16 |
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.
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$118
- PROCLAIM$116
- GENERATOR$100
How this compares
Too few interventional pain medicine providers in Alaskato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 19 | $524 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 12 | $490 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 14 | $103 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 11 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Anchorage
- Luke LiuAnchorage$42K
- Lawrence KroppAnchorage$218
- Christopher GayFairbanks$16K
- John GrissomWasilla$3K
- Eric SeversonWasilla$712
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.