Ashley Howard, MD
Family Medicine · Canton, ILNPI 1841649662
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 180 payments — averaging $18.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$461
- Boehringer Ingelheim$408
- Novartis$404
- Almatica Pharma LLC$319
- Novo Nordisk$244
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$203
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,26197%
- Education$953%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 24 | $461 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 20 | $408 |
| Novartis | 30 | $404 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 17 | $319 |
| Novo Nordisk | 13 | $244 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 10 | $203 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $145 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $131 |
| Abbott | 7 | $129 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 6 | $120 |
| Bayer | 7 | $118 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 5 | $108 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $96 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $86 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $71 |
| GSK | 4 | $68 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $67 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $52 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$3,356 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 4,116 family medicine providers in Illinois.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 76 | $65,574 |
| EliquisApixaban | 106 | $63,287 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 49 | $44,099 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 38 | $33,705 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 69 | $30,561 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 40 | $28,618 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 35 | $22,627 |
| CaplytaLumateperone Tosylate | 12 | $20,563 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 21 | $19,242 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 42 | $17,543 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 18 | $10,956 |
| GemtesaVibegron | 21 | $10,817 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 18 | $10,116 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 16 | $7,550 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 11 | $7,284 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $86 | $65,57476 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $67 | $63,287106 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Stiolto Respimat | $408 | $59,50971 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $244 | $44,09949 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta | $68 | $37,32564 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $71 | $30,56169 claims |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)Caplyta | $203 | $20,56312 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Farxiga | $461 | $18,23929 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $131 | $17,54342 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid | $145 | $12,17737 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $404 | $7,55016 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 4,116 family medicine providers in Illinois.
Other family medicine in Canton
- Daniel BruneCreve Coeur$15M
- Ali BajwaSpringfield$5.8M
- John ElsenEvergreen Park$5M
- Manohar JethaniBerwyn$4.9M
- Tiffany NguyenSkokie$3.9M
- Bradley TorphyChicago$3M
- Diana WidicusRochester$2.6M
- Nicholas WeberEureka$2.5M
- Stanley KochMorton$2.3M
- Mark ChristensenNew Lenox$2.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.