Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-06-30 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

JOHN HOWARD FRIERSON

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Interventional Cardiology

NPI
1326021015
CMS profile
400648
Location
SAN ANTONIO, TX

General Payments · PY2019–2025

$2,754.86

  • Reported across 98 records
  • CMS publication 2026-06-30

Latest program year · PY2025

$567.96

26 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

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $567.96 26

By paying entity

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2019 $891.41 16
PY2020 $445.05 15
PY2021 $101.73 7
PY2022 $249.50 9
PY2023 $208.04 11
PY2024 $291.17 14
PY2025 $567.96 26

Payment records · PY2025 (26)

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

Program year 2025 201920202021202220232024 Record-level detail is published for PY2025; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Abbott Laboratories $81.01 08/18/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1241034553 CMS
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $20.07 01/08/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1222993955 CMS
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $22.22 03/19/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1222993957 CMS
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $17.43 09/26/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1222993959 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $30.91 04/22/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1181096694 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $30.05 11/03/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1181096696 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $17.57 12/15/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1181096698 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $28.38 09/04/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1225254390 CMS
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. $13.67 07/10/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1243958686 CMS
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $20.73 12/30/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1191689265 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $24.41 01/02/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1186727067 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $16.90 01/29/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1186727065 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $18.84 08/01/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1186694239 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $37.32 07/25/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1218827994 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $18.60 05/01/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1200280462 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $15.90 06/25/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1200280468 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $15.36 08/20/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1200280472 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $25.39 03/14/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1188207917 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $22.90 05/30/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1188243603 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $4.16 06/18/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1188898508 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $15.59 06/20/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1188888394 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $9.97 07/11/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1188264022 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $19.33 08/15/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1189155297 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $14.03 10/17/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1189043987 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $11.90 11/05/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1189099037 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $15.32 12/06/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1188283676 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-06-30
Program years on this page
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024 , PY2025
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2025_P06302026_06032026.csv

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