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

Kris Howard

Procedural Dermatology Odessa, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1740283019 CMS profile 33220

8141 Dorado Drive, Odessa, TX 79765

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General payments

$3,036

180 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, Kris Howard of Odessa, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $3,036 across 180 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 58th percentile of Procedural Dermatology 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 $320 16
2024 General $343 32
2023 General $558 22
2022 General $508 29
2021 General $348 21
2020 General $243 15
2019 General $716 45

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Kris Howard were reported at $320. Among 381 Procedural Dermatology profiles paid that year, the median was $592 and the middle half received between $144 and $1,778.

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Year Kris Howard Procedural Dermatology median Middle half National median
2019 $716 $454 $152–$1,260 $163
2020 $243 $243 $90–$835 $114
2021 $348 $337 $102–$1,128 $132
2022 $508 $443 $119–$1,654 $149
2023 $558 $583 $137–$1,838 $160
2024 $343 $611 $132–$1,835 $164
2025 $320 $592 $144–$1,778 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $547 19 payments
  2. Mayne Pharma Inc. $439 39 payments
  3. Lilly USA, LLC $438 23 payments
  4. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $225 24 payments
  5. AbbVie, Inc. $213 19 payments
  6. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $179 10 payments
  7. Almirall LLC $166 7 payments
  8. Galderma Laboratories, L.P. $152 13 payments
  9. Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. $132 2 payments
  10. UCB, Inc. $92 1 payment
  11. Other $454 23 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $2,576 173 payments
  2. Education $460 7 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. TREMFYA $596 18 payments
  2. TALTZ $378 22 payments
  3. Klisyri $138 5 payments
  4. DUPIXENT $132 2 payments
  5. COSENTYX $116 18 payments
  6. HUMIRA $113 9 payments
  7. Bimzelx $92 1 payment
  8. Erivedge $62 3 payments
  9. AXXENT SURFACE CONTROLLER $59 1 payment
  10. RINVOQ $54 3 payments
  11. Other $723 75 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 · 24 drugs

Part D claims

774

Median for Dermatology: 534

Drug cost

$536,945

Median for Dermatology: $67,151

Branded share of claims

18%

Median for Dermatology: 8.1%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Cosentyx Unoready Pen Secukinumab Brand 16 $212,481
Taltz Autoinjector Ixekizumab Brand 13 $88,796
Humira(Cf) Pen Adalimumab Brand 13 $81,806
Taltz Syringe Ixekizumab Brand 12 $78,614
Dupixent Pen Dupilumab Brand 13 $46,924
Fluorouracil Generic 80 $5,797
Doxycycline Ir-Dr Doxycycline Monohydrate Brand 12 $5,711
Clobetasol Propionate Generic 100 $4,602
Fluocinonide-E Fluocinonide/Emollient Base Brand 27 $1,808
Metronidazole Generic 23 $1,715

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 24 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 13,550 Part D prescribers listed as Dermatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 82 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$242,756

Of which drugs: $1,443

Medicare patients

1,062

Average age 76

Services billed

4,302

497 women, 565 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 73%
Arthritis 44%
Ischemic heart disease 28%
Diabetes 26%
Atrial fibrillation 18%
Chronic kidney disease 14%
Cancer 13%
Depression 13%
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, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg J0702 Office 15 34 $114
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 34 160 $92

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

5 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
COSENTYX
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $116
$116 16 —
TREMFYA
  • Janssen Biotech, Inc. $79
$79 — —
Klisyri
  • Almirall LLC $19
$19 — —
DUPIXENT
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. $17
$17 13 —
Cabtreo
  • Ortho Dermatologics, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $15
$15 — —

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

180 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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