Brooke Howitt, MD
Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology · Stanford, CANPI 1669797197
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $25,355 of the $31,407 with a category attached, or 80.7%. Boston Scientific accounts for 68.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $16,570 and has fallen 75.7% since, to $4,032 in 2025. Among anatomic pathology & clinical pathology clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 12 payments — averaging $2617.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$22K
- Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.$4K
- Leica Microsystems Inc.$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Immunogen, Inc.$750
- AbbVie$607
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$25,35581%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,02019%
- Food & beverage$320%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $21,520 |
| Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $4,000 |
| Leica Microsystems Inc. | 2 | $3,430 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $1,100 |
| Immunogen, Inc. | 1 | $750 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $607 |
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.
- CLINICAL TRIAL PRODUCT$21,520
- BOND-PRIME automated stainer$1,410
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,100
- Elahere$750
How this compares
$31,407 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 814 anatomic pathology & clinical pathology providers in California.
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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 anatomic pathology & clinical pathology in Stanford
- Hua ShanStanford$295K
- Teri LongacreStanford$60K
- Gerald BerryStanford$49K
- Yasodha NatkunamStanford$38K
- Eric YangStanford$34K
- Sucheta SrivastavaStanford$28K
- Siddhartha JaiswalStanford$26K
- Serge AlexanianLos Angeles$3.2M
- Brian ConeLos Angeles$519K
- John BlausteinSanta Barbara$464K
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.