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 A HOWARD

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Family Medicine

NPI
1891896510
CMS profile
358341
Location
FOREST, MS

General Payments · PY2018–2023

$4,948.90

  • Reported across 371 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2023

$188.17

11 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

PY2023 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $188.17 11

By paying entity

PY2023 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Acerta Pharma LLC $47.47 3
ABBVIE INC. $43.66 2
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $28.03 2
Novo Nordisk AS $22.19 1
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $17.48 1
Amgen Inc. $16.07 1
SANOFI-AVENTIS U.S. LLC $13.27 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $1,407.04 125
PY2019 $1,105.04 97
PY2020 $1,290.68 72
PY2021 $540.86 37
PY2022 $417.11 29
PY2023 $188.17 11

Payment records · PY2023 (11)

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

Program year 2023 20182019202020212022 Record-level detail is published for PY2023; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
ABBVIE INC. $22.69 07/11/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 997505737 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $20.97 07/20/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 997505739 CMS
Amgen Inc. $16.07 06/22/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1020540889 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $14.83 02/14/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1015364823 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $16.32 02/27/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1015420013 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $16.32 03/22/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1011682861 CMS
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $14.76 02/23/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1002984328 CMS
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $13.27 05/29/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1002984343 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC $17.48 04/27/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1048932239 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $22.19 06/20/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1001454325 CMS
SANOFI-AVENTIS U.S. LLC $13.27 03/28/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1050272169 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
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2023_P01232026_01102026.csv

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