Vietta Johnson
Orthopaedic Surgery · Hammond, INNPI 1285686899
Payments from drug & device makers
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.
- ALTEON$1,672
- Hips-None$263
- Stravix$241
- MOUNTAINEER$125
- Grafix PL PRIME$121
- Grafix$121
- GrafixPL$121
How this compares
$4,415 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 400 orthopaedic surgery providers in Indiana.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Hammond
- Frank KolisekGreenwood$7.6M
- David FisherIndianapolis$5.9M
- Michael BerendIndianapolis$4.1M
- John WilliamsFort Wayne$2.7M
- Alan McGeeFort Wayne$2.3M
- Sanford KunkelIndianapolis$1.9M
- Hill HastingsIndianapolis$1.6M
- Mark KlaassenElkhart$1.4M
- Micah SmithFort Wayne$1.2M
- Lindsey RolstonNew Castle$1.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.