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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $23,242 in general payments to William Johnson, MD across 64 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 William 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 William 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.

William Johnson, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Jackson, MSNPI 1346680709

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (44.2%), education and grants — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 29.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $13,130 and has fallen 81.0% since, to $2,500 in 2025.

$23,242in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 64 payments — averaging $363.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$7K
Smith+Nephew$6K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$5K
Medtronic$4K
Canary Medical USA LLC$500
Johnson & Johnson$311
plus $516 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,0605%
Grants$4,00017%
Travel & lodging$10,26244%
Food & beverage$2,1639%
Education$5,75725%

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
Zimmer Biomet	40	$6,778
Smith+Nephew	2	$5,647
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	5	$5,490
Medtronic	1	$4,000
Canary Medical USA LLC	1	$500
Johnson & Johnson	3	$311
Medacta USA, Inc.	2	$199
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$113
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$73
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$39
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.	2	$32
Solventum Corporation	1	$20
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$15
AbbVie	1	$13
Ferring Pharmaceuticals 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

$23,242 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 170 orthopaedic surgery providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$594,008

Medicare patients

950

Services billed

33,684

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
EliquisApixaban	26	$14,129
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	232	$3,219
Diclofenac Sodium	278	$3,132
Oxycodone Hcl	256	$2,227
Cefadroxil	235	$2,018
Mupirocin	273	$1,907
Methylprednisolone	246	$1,551
Meloxicam	495	$1,382
Tramadol Hcl	319	$764
Enoxaparin Sodium	14	$643
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	55	$593
Prednisone	208	$412
Ibuprofen	62	$381
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	15	$178
Naproxen	33	$166

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Jackson

Matthew GravesJackson$1.2M
Edward HobgoodJackson$267K
Jamey BurrowJackson$130K
Jeff AlmandJackson$109K
Spencer MontgomeryJackson$90K
Larry FieldJackson$88K
Kevin PurcellJackson$72K
Colin CooperJackson$55K
Tammam HannaJackson$47K
Wood DaleJackson$46K

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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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