Has Vietta Johnson received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,415 in general payments to Vietta Johnson across 84 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 Vietta Johnson 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 Vietta Johnson 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.

Vietta Johnson

Orthopaedic Surgery · Hammond, INNPI 1285686899

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,935 of the $4,415 with a category attached, or 66.5%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Exactech, Inc. at 37.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,905 and has fallen 85.1% since, to $283 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IN, where the typical reported total is $4,533.

$4,415in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 84 payments — averaging $52.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Exactech, Inc.$2K
Smith+Nephew$694
Zimmer Biomet$676
Organogenesis Inc.$280
Mimedx Group, Inc.$253
Johnson & Johnson$171
plus $670 from 15 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,48034%
Food & beverage$2,93566%

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
Exactech, Inc.	3	$1,672
Smith+Nephew	28	$694
Zimmer Biomet	14	$676
Organogenesis Inc.	10	$280
Mimedx Group, Inc.	2	$253
Johnson & Johnson	2	$171
Stryker	4	$112
Kerecis Limited	2	$107
Medline Industries LP	2	$89
Bioventus LLC	3	$66
Linvatec Corporation	1	$52
Misonix Inc	2	$50
Amgen	2	$37
Convatec Inc.	2	$35
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$22
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$21
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$19
Paragon 28, Inc.	1	$17
Tactile Systems Technology Inc	1	$16
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$14
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.	1	$13

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.

How this compares

$4,415 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 400 orthopaedic surgery providers in Indiana.

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Mark KlaassenElkhart$1.3M
Alan McGeeFort Wayne$1.1M
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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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