Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

ROBERT EDGAR HOWELL

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Orthopaedic Surgery

NPI
1205070901
CMS profile
1296187
Location
MONTGOMERY, AL

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$60,419.87

  • Reported across 162 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$521.02

13 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $521.02 13

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $170.97 4
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $168.93 3
Bioventus LLC $116.20 4
Think Surgical, Inc. $45.68 1
Smith & Nephew, Inc. $19.24 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $456.30 17
PY2019 $4,866.74 39
PY2020 $5,752.42 17
PY2021 $20,180.15 35
PY2022 $3,581.15 13
PY2023 $25,062.09 28
PY2024 $521.02 13

Payment records · PY2024 (13)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Bioventus LLC $29.65 04/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137442166 CMS
Bioventus LLC $19.69 07/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137442168 CMS
Bioventus LLC $42.71 08/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137442170 CMS
Bioventus LLC $24.15 11/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137442172 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $93.50 06/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077801596 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $47.14 08/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077801615 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $28.29 10/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077801563 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $19.24 03/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1149536923 CMS
Think Surgical, Inc. $45.68 10/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138639037 CMS
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $9.20 01/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1155047613 CMS
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $50.35 01/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1155047619 CMS
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $24.35 05/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1155047637 CMS
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $87.07 06/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1155047639 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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