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

LUCIUS ALEXANDER HOWELL

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Interventional Cardiology

NPI
1932424140
CMS profile
646376
Location
ASHEVILLE, NC

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$4,662.01

  • Reported across 131 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$768.92

29 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 $768.92 29

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $776.44 21
PY2019 $191.28 12
PY2020 $1,276.46 15
PY2021 $444.75 10
PY2022 $690.21 17
PY2023 $513.95 27
PY2024 $768.92 29

Payment records · PY2024 (29)

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 $14.70 01/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125345183 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $22.47 02/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125345185 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $17.91 02/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125345187 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $2.20 02/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125345189 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $6.17 04/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125345203 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $13.46 05/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125345191 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $3.62 05/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125345193 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $23.32 06/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125345195 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $7.52 06/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125345197 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $16.82 07/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125345199 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $23.18 08/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125345201 CMS
Amgen Inc. $16.30 05/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1111602144 CMS
Amgen Inc. $19.27 06/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1111602146 CMS
Amgen Inc. $18.02 07/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1111602148 CMS
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $22.26 03/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1118240947 CMS
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $17.63 10/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1118240945 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $36.97 08/19/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1092374963 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $139.70 09/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1092374965 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $26.84 10/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1092374961 CMS
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $23.36 05/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1101698130 CMS
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $23.91 09/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1101698185 CMS
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $24.58 12/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1101698210 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $14.70 03/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1078069640 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $14.15 08/01/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1078069576 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $26.75 08/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1078069462 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $55.56 05/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119554730 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $97.71 05/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119554728 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $19.36 04/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1096597290 CMS
PFIZER INC. $20.48 11/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1131035048 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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