Has Trent Johnson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,578 in general payments to Trent Johnson, MD across 37 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 Trent Johnson, 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 Trent Johnson, 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.

Trent Johnson, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Hot Springs, ARNPI 1588820864

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,707 of the $4,578 with a category attached, or 81.0%. Stryker accounts for 60.9% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,654, more than ten times the $90 reported in 2019.

$4,578in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 37 payments — averaging $123.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$3K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
Amgen$55
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$54
Bioventus LLC$29
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$19
plus $42 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,70781%
Food & beverage$87119%

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
Stryker	14	$2,789
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	9	$1,591
Amgen	4	$55
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	3	$54
Bioventus LLC	2	$29
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$19
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$18
Smith+Nephew	1	$17
Sonex Health, Inc.	2	$7

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.

MAKO$2,398
Velys$1,382

How this compares

$4,578 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 168 orthopaedic surgery providers in Arkansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$140,997

Medicare patients

371

Services billed

1,796

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	155	$1,284
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	88	$718
Diclofenac Sodium	44	$492
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	36	$146
Methylprednisolone	20	$132
Meloxicam	47	$108
Tramadol Hcl	28	$101
Gabapentin	13	$79
Methocarbamol	14	$71

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Hot Springs

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Charles BarnesLittle Rock$2.1M
Kenneth MartinLittle Rock$322K
Wesley CoxFayetteville$309K
William HefleyNorth Little Rock$306K
David BumpassLittle Rock$175K
Lawrence O'MalleyLittle Rock$151K
Jason BrandtJonesboro$104K
Jason SmithLittle Rock$102K
Richard McCarthyLittle Rock$75K

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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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