Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Cindy Johnston

Rheumatology Sarasota, FL Medical Doctor

NPI 1932332384 CMS profile 360704

1945 Versailles St Fl 2, Sarasota, FL 34239

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General payments

$27,013

847 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Cindy Johnston of Sarasota, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $27,013 across 847 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 86th percentile of Rheumatology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $11,507 148
2024 General $4,001 119
2023 General $2,914 114
2022 General $2,206 96
2021 General $892 53
2020 General $2,289 123
2019 General $3,205 194

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Cindy Johnston
  • Rheumatology median
  • Middle half of Rheumatology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Cindy Johnston were reported at $11,507. Among 4,454 Rheumatology profiles paid that year, the median was $903 and the middle half received between $171 and $2,775.

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Year Cindy Johnston Rheumatology median Middle half National median
2019 $3,205 $744 $153–$2,687 $163
2020 $2,289 $462 $98–$2,027 $114
2021 $892 $531 $101–$2,153 $132
2022 $2,206 $627 $125–$2,303 $149
2023 $2,914 $741 $145–$2,524 $160
2024 $4,001 $830 $166–$2,660 $164
2025 $11,507 $903 $171–$2,775 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $9,895 160 payments
  2. AbbVie, Inc. $3,686 138 payments
  3. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $3,280 122 payments
  4. Amgen Inc. $1,472 62 payments
  5. UCB, Inc. $1,081 52 payments
  6. Pfizer Inc. $1,064 72 payments
  7. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $1,062 52 payments
  8. Lilly USA, LLC $956 33 payments
  9. Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $823 10 payments
  10. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $730 34 payments
  11. Other $2,964 112 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $20,183 837 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $5,413 1 payment
  3. Travel and Lodging $1,070 4 payments
  4. Education $347 5 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. COSENTYX Dermatology $7,766 74 payments
  2. TREMFYA $2,801 79 payments
  3. RINVOQ $2,162 65 payments
  4. SIMPONI ARIA $1,595 63 payments
  5. COSENTYX Immunology $1,134 78 payments
  6. BENLYSTA $1,062 52 payments
  7. XELJANZ $971 67 payments
  8. TALTZ $956 33 payments
  9. STELARA $750 36 payments
  10. ORENCIA $599 32 payments
  11. Other $7,931 373 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 30 drugs

Part D claims

1,926

Median for Rheumatology: 1,511

Drug cost

$1,872,058

Median for Rheumatology: $1,139,948

Branded share of claims

30.8%

Median for Rheumatology: 28.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Skyrizi Pen Risankizumab-Rzaa Brand 23 $480,516
Humira(Cf) Pen Adalimumab Brand 61 $452,085
Tremfya Guselkumab Brand 18 $238,487
Orencia Clickject Abatacept Brand 28 $216,862
Simponi Golimumab Brand 32 $194,648
Cosentyx Unoready Pen Secukinumab Brand 11 $80,135
Otezla Apremilast Brand 12 $61,572
Actemra Actpen Tocilizumab Brand 12 $57,801
Prolia Denosumab Brand 27 $46,646
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate Generic 295 $11,408

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 30 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 5,224 Part D prescribers listed as Rheumatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 55 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$1,639,406

Of which drugs: $1,442,862

Medicare patients

762

Average age 75

Services billed

131,621

611 women, 151 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Osteoporosis 57%
Ischemic heart disease 33%
Depression 25%
Chronic kidney disease 24%
COPD 20%
Atrial fibrillation 18%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, abatacept, 10 mg (code may be used for medicare when drug administered under the direct supervision of a physician, not for use when drug is self administered) J0129 Office 64 14,564 $492,457
Injection, secukinumab, intravenous, 1 mg J3247 Office 25 13,869 $190,843
Injection, golimumab, 1 mg, for intravenous use J1602 Office 70 20,860 $187,755
Injection, tocilizumab, 1 mg J3262 Office 26 32,829 $155,547
Injection, certolizumab pegol, 1 mg (code may be used for medicare when drug administered under the direct supervision of a physician, not for use when drug is self administered) J0717 Office 32 29,600 $107,614
Injection, denosumab, 1 mg J0897 Office 80 5,102 $104,015
Injection, romosozumab-aqqg, 1 mg J3111 Office 12 6,930 $58,804
Injection, infliximab, excludes biosimilar, 10 mg J1745 Office 20 1,722 $42,887
Injection, zoledronic acid, 1 mg J3489 Office 13 65 $332

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 29 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
TREMFYA
$790 18 —
COSENTYX
$468 11 —
RINVOQ
$378 — —
KEVZARA
$243 — —
TALTZ
$228 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

847 reported

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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