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

Annette Howard

Neurology Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1508857665 CMS profile 204529

6655 Travis St, Ste 780, Houston, TX 77030

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General payments

$825,808

843 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$4,481

Paid to them · 2 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Annette Howard of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $825,808 across 843 general payments and $4,481 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 99th percentile of Neurology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

9 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $123,283 73
2024 General $137,905 126
2023 General $202,368 173
2022 General $85,292 110
2021 General $77,538 80
2021 Research $4,125 1
2020 General $46,616 73
2020 Research $356 1
2019 General $152,806 208

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Annette Howard
  • Neurology median
  • Middle half of Neurology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Annette Howard were reported at $123,283. Among 11,022 Neurology profiles paid that year, the median was $457 and the middle half received between $118 and $2,344.

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Year Annette Howard Neurology median Middle half National median
2019 $152,806 $474 $118–$2,177 $163
2020 $46,616 $367 $82–$2,309 $114
2021 $77,538 $438 $104–$2,547 $132
2022 $85,292 $442 $103–$2,388 $149
2023 $202,368 $464 $119–$2,312 $160
2024 $137,905 $468 $119–$2,323 $164
2025 $123,283 $457 $118–$2,344 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Genzyme Corporation $332,923 308 payments
  2. EMD Serono, Inc. $170,704 182 payments
  3. Horizon Therapeutics plc $101,962 98 payments
  4. TG Therapeutics, Inc. $75,478 53 payments
  5. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $64,530 49 payments
  6. Celgene Corporation $36,769 64 payments
  7. Amgen Inc. $30,587 30 payments
  8. ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $10,587 23 payments
  9. Biogen, Inc. $967 19 payments
  10. Banner Life Sciences, LLC $900 1 payment
  11. Other $402 16 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $544,519 197 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $101,513 239 payments
  3. Honoraria $88,890 28 payments
  4. Consulting Fee $57,681 25 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $26,882 342 payments
  6. Grant $4,000 2 payments
  7. Charitable Contribution $2,000 1 payment
  8. Education $324 9 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Mavenclad Neurology $158,403 86 payments
  2. AUBAGIO Multiple Sclerosis $109,759 128 payments
  3. UPLIZNA Uplizna $101,962 98 payments
  4. ZEPOSIA $92,736 103 payments
  5. BRIUMVI $75,478 53 payments
  6. AUBAGIO Neurology $34,340 45 payments
  7. UPLIZNA Inflammation/Rare Disease $24,537 27 payments
  8. DISEASE STATE $20,958 18 payments
  9. LEMTRADA $18,997 26 payments
  10. Mavenclad Neurology $8,263 25 payments
  11. Other $16,608 101 payments

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

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $4,481 2 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 32 drugs

Part D claims

671

Median for Neurology: 833

Drug cost

$353,558

Median for Neurology: $202,670

Branded share of claims

35.5%

Median for Neurology: 25.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Zeposia Ozanimod Hydrochloride Brand 12 $108,795
Aubagio Teriflunomide Brand 12 $102,953
Dalfampridine Er Dalfampridine Brand 56 $44,549
Trintellix Vortioxetine Hydrobromide Brand 46 $26,623
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 23 $18,548
Myrbetriq Mirabegron Brand 25 $14,818
Fetzima Levomilnacipran Hcl Brand 21 $14,019
Memantine Hcl Er Memantine Hcl Brand 26 $9,446
Vilazodone Hcl Generic 28 $2,725
Lacosamide Generic 21 $1,890

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 32 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 13,695 Part D prescribers listed as Neurology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 2 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$14,666

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

38

Average age 74

Services billed

112

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%
Diabetes 71%
Chronic kidney disease 32%
Ischemic heart disease 29%

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

4 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
ZEPOSIA
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $31,183
  • Celgene Corporation $7,470
$38,654 12 —
Mavenclad
  • EMD Serono, Inc. $25,831
$25,831 — —
BRIUMVI
  • TG Therapeutics, Inc. $17,650
$17,650 — —
PURIFIED CORTROPHIN GEL
  • ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $3,819
$3,819 — —

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.

Records

845 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

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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