Who Paid My Doc
Michael Howard
Hand Surgery Plano, TX Medical Doctor
NPI 1568586550 CMS profile 25957
5228 W Plano Pkwy, Plano, TX 75093
General payments
$35,444
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Michael Howard of Plano, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $35,444 across 93 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 92nd percentile of Hand Surgery 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 | $10,741 | 19 | |
| 2024 | General | $589 | 16 | |
| 2023 | General | $1,554 | 31 | |
| 2022 | General | $12,552 | 11 | |
| 2021 | General | $1,843 | 3 | |
| 2020 | General | $518 | 2 | |
| 2019 | General | $7,649 | 11 |
Beside peers
- Michael Howard
- Hand Surgery median
- Middle half of Hand Surgery
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Michael Howard were reported at $10,741. Among 1,842 Hand Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $270 and the middle half received between $102 and $1,118.
Show as a table
| Year | Michael Howard | Hand Surgery median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $7,649 | $383 | $106–$1,905 | $163 |
| 2020 | $518 | $172 | $51–$1,268 | $114 |
| 2021 | $1,843 | $263 | $71–$1,591 | $132 |
| 2022 | $12,552 | $336 | $87–$1,938 | $149 |
| 2023 | $1,554 | $233 | $81–$1,114 | $160 |
| 2024 | $589 | $258 | $88–$1,203 | $164 |
| 2025 | $10,741 | $270 | $102–$1,118 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 10 drugsPart D claims
792
Drug cost
$2,880
Branded share of claims
7.4%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | Generic | 194 | $571 | |
| Oxycodone Hcl | Generic | 181 | $557 | |
| Meloxicam | Generic | 210 | $484 | |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | Generic | 59 | $357 | |
| Celecoxib | Generic | 18 | $228 | |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen | Brand | 38 | $214 | |
| Cephalexin | Generic | 43 | $183 | |
| Ondansetron Odt Ondansetron | Brand | 21 | $125 | |
| Methocarbamol | Generic | 17 | $88 | |
| Gabapentin | Generic | 11 | $73 |
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 codesPaid by Medicare
$265,362
Medicare patients
562
Services billed
4,038
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 74% | |
| Arthritis | 74% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 29% | |
| Diabetes | 23% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 20% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 19% | |
| Depression | 19% | |
| Cancer | 14% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injection, ketorolac tromethamine, per 15 mg J1885 | Office | 170 | 399 | $201 |
| Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 | Office | 117 | 193 | $143 |
| Injection, bupivicaine, not otherwise specified, 0.5 mg J0665 | Office | 256 | 743 | $7 |
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
93 reportedEvery 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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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.