Has Whitney Johnson, DPM received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,109 in general payments to Whitney Johnson, DPM across 127 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 Whitney Johnson, DPM 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 Whitney Johnson, DPM 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.

Whitney Johnson, DPM

Foot & Ankle Surgery · Rockford, ILNPI 1700438264

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,109in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 127 payments — averaging $79.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Liberty Surgical Inc.$3K
Smith+Nephew$2K
Kerecis Limited$1K
Alpha Orthopedic Systems$701
Stryker$693
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$470
plus $2K from 25 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,25212%
Food & beverage$5,26852%
Education$3,58936%

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
Liberty Surgical Inc.	3	$3,119
Smith+Nephew	37	$1,574
Kerecis Limited	8	$1,075
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	2	$701
Stryker	11	$693
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$470
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.	3	$447
Organogenesis Inc.	14	$390
Arthrex	4	$283
Highridge Medical LLC	1	$271
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$140
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	7	$127
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.	2	$121
Medtronic	4	$106
Averitas Pharma Inc.	2	$73
Nevro Corp.	3	$66
Acumed LLC	1	$46
DJO, LLC	2	$45
Amgen	2	$43
Acera Surgical, Inc.	2	$37
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$36
AbbVie	2	$34
Convatec Inc.	1	$30
Paragon 28, Inc.	1	$30
Zimmer Biomet	1	$30
Misonix Inc	2	$29
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	2	$25
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$22
Music City Medical Technologies, LLC	1	$17
Solventum Corporation	1	$14
Johnson & Johnson	1	$14

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.

Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$2,523
Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$841
Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$841
Stravix$470
Lapiplasty System$410
INTEGRA$355
Biomet EBI Bone Healing System$271
GRAFIX PL$239
EASYFUSE$169
AUGMENT INJECTABLE$169
SALVATION$169
PROSTEP MICA$137
ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$137
INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$118
PRIMATRIX$118
Grafix$105
Oasis$105

How this compares

$10,109 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 555 foot & ankle surgery providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$190,784

Medicare patients

221

Services billed

1,183

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
Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip	37	$790
Clotrimazole	19	$330
Doxycycline Hyclate	43	$243
Ketoconazole	18	$205
Gabapentin	50	$177
Terbinafine Hcl	20	$153
Clindamycin Hcl	14	$118
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	22	$89
Methylprednisolone	12	$83
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	14	$50
Ibuprofen	11	$26

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot & ankle surgery in Rockford

Douglas PacaccioRockford$4.3M
Anand VoraLibertyville$3.2M
Lowell WeilMount Prospect$2.4M
Matthew SorensenAlgonquin$1.1M
Edgardo Rodriguez CollazoChicago$755K
David GarrasOrland Park$658K
Patrick McEneaneyCary$586K
Brian BurgessNaperville$496K
Kyle PearsonMorris$208K
Stephanie OexemanChicago$206K

See the full list for Illinois →

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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