Brett Howard, MD
Surgery · Tallahassee, FLNPI 1265792261
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 34 payments — averaging $59.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$170
- Endomagnetics Ltd$160
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$85
- Johnson & Johnson$64
- Asensus Surgical, Inc.$63
- plus $218 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$71936%
- Food & beverage$85442%
- Education$19710%
- Gifts$24612%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 9 | $1,255 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $170 |
| Endomagnetics Ltd | 1 | $160 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $85 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $64 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $29 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $27 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $18 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $15 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $15 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $13 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,120
- Magseed$160
- Magtrace$160
- SYNECOR Biomaterial$101
How this compares
$2,016 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,569 surgery providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sucralfate | 22 | $1,598 |
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 17 | $999 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 55 | $634 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 102 | $470 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 52 | $172 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 11 | $42 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 14 | $40 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $37 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Tallahassee
- Leo DerosierTallahassee$152K
- Jorge FlorinWinter Garden$2.2M
- Steven FagienBoca Raton$1.6M
- John MullinaxTampa$1.5M
- Amit TaggarTampa$1.4M
- Panagiotis SarantosGainesville$1.3M
- Keith KimCelebration$1.1M
- Christopher DucoinTampa$1.1M
- Andre TeixeiraOcala$1M
- Richard DiciccoTampa$964K
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.