Brandon Howard, PhD
Diagnostic Radiology · Durham, NCNPI 1912101841
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $236,968 of the $236,968 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Merck. 2021 is the largest year on record at $146,168, more than ten times the $1,938 reported in 2019. Among diagnostic radiology clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 101 payments — averaging $2346.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$237K
Across 65 payments — averaging $2362.31 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Regeneron$95K
- GSK$53K
- F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$5K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$263
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$236,968100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 101 | $236,968 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$236,968 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,085 diagnostic radiology providers in North Carolina.
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.
Other diagnostic radiology in Durham
- Rendon NelsonDurham$1.4M
- Daniele MarinDurham$674K
- Joseph MammarappallilDurham$640K
- Rajan GuptaDurham$183K
- Holman McAdamsDurham$89K
- Derek NguyenDurham$72K
- David EnterlineDurham$45K
- Lars GrimmDurham$44K
- Joseph CaoDurham$22K
- Sora YoonDurham$14K
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.