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

Clinton Howard

Orthopaedic Surgery Mobile, AL Medical Doctor

NPI 1508954801 CMS profile 249570

6144 Airport Blvd, Mobile, AL 36608

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General payments

$23,695

7 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, Clinton Howard of Mobile, AL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $23,695 across 7 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 82nd percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $31 2
2024 General $101 1
2023 General $72 1
2022 General $125 1
2021 General $24 1
2019 General $23,342 1

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Clinton Howard were reported at $31. Among 15,343 Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $563 and the middle half received between $147 and $2,717.

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Year Clinton Howard Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $23,342 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $0 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $24 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $125 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $72 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $101 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $31 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. S. Alabama Surgical Services, LLC $23,342 1 payment
  2. Spinal Elements, Inc. $173 2 payments
  3. Providence Medical Technology, Inc. $125 1 payment
  4. Novo Nordisk Inc $24 1 payment
  5. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $17 1 payment
  6. Medtronic, Inc. $15 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Current or prospective ownership or investment interest $23,342 1 payment
  2. Food and Beverage $353 6 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medical Devices $202 2 payments
  2. Saxenda $24 1 payment
  3. RENASYS Touch $17 1 payment
  4. UNID_PASS $15 1 payment

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 · 14 drugs

Part D claims

1,647

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$8,370

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

23.1%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 138 $1,843
Meloxicam Generic 371 $1,083
Tramadol Hcl Generic 337 $893
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 111 $880
Tizanidine Hcl Generic 219 $827
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl Generic 158 $685
Acetaminophen-Codeine Acetaminophen With Codeine Brand 106 $628
Methylprednisolone Generic 81 $602
Celecoxib Generic 28 $282
Diclofenac Sodium Generic 15 $215

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 14 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 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 62 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$202,286

Of which drugs: $371

Medicare patients

559

Average age 75

Services billed

2,536

340 women, 219 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 68%
Ischemic heart disease 43%
Diabetes 35%
Chronic kidney disease 24%
Depression 24%
Heart failure 19%
Osteoporosis 19%
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, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 98 465 $335
Injection, ketorolac tromethamine, per 15 mg J1885 Office 36 74 $36

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.

Records

7 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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