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

AUSTIN HOWARD

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

NPI
1417394172
CMS profile
1802873
Location
HOUSTON, TX

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$42,964.37

  • Reported across 539 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$2,057.85

48 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 $2,057.85 48

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Abbott Laboratories $1,158.84 18
Biosense Webster, Inc. $373.52 17
Medtronic, Inc. $200.31 6
ABIOMED $134.19 1
ATRICURE, INC. $94.84 2
iRhythm Technologies, Inc. $37.29 2
Ethicon US, LLC $34.82 1
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $24.04 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $2,554.48 93
PY2019 $3,488.62 85
PY2020 $10,833.27 65
PY2021 $7,159.68 101
PY2022 $15,258.33 120
PY2023 $1,612.14 27
PY2024 $2,057.85 48

Payment records · PY2024 (48)

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
Abbott Laboratories $8.20 01/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125054779 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $19.81 02/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125054781 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $142.34 02/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125054783 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $154.05 03/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125054785 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $23.00 03/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125054787 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $84.00 03/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125054789 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $166.38 04/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125054791 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $39.94 04/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125054793 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $19.90 04/26/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125054795 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $1.36 04/26/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125054797 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $48.13 05/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125054799 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $20.63 06/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125054801 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $156.99 06/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125054803 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $42.71 07/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125054805 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $21.17 07/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125054807 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $40.02 08/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125054813 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $138.99 10/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125054809 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $31.22 12/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125054811 CMS
ABIOMED $134.19 10/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1142238146 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $47.46 03/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1132902700 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $47.38 04/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1132877955 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $38.12 03/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077697476 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $40.69 05/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077697419 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $14.18 05/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077697573 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $44.40 06/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077697436 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $31.10 06/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077697505 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $8.93 06/21/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077697403 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $17.89 07/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077697577 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $6.86 08/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077697484 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $15.56 08/21/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077697399 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $6.73 08/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077697428 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $22.96 09/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077697492 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $20.49 09/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077697556 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $10.87 10/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077697468 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $5.33 11/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077697522 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $11.55 11/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077697581 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $31.65 12/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077697585 CMS
Biosense Webster, Inc. $46.21 12/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077697440 CMS
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $24.04 10/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1101771866 CMS
Ethicon US, LLC $34.82 02/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077638282 CMS
iRhythm Technologies, Inc. $17.14 11/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1154055998 CMS
iRhythm Technologies, Inc. $20.15 11/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1154055996 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $136.84 01/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119309902 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $8.60 02/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119309904 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $18.99 08/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119309906 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $8.43 09/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119309908 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $12.84 11/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119309912 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $14.61 11/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119309910 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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