Has Charles Howe, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,476 in general payments to Charles Howe, MD across 133 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Charles Howe, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Charles Howe, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Charles Howe, MD

Pain Medicine · Anderson, INNPI 1568493096

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,476in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 133 payments — averaging $18.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$268
AbbVie$265
Amgen$148
Medtronic$143
EMD Serono, Inc.$118
Lilly USA, LLC$109
plus $1K from 36 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,464100%
Education$120%

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
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	17	$268
AbbVie(2 entities)	12	$265
Amgen(2 entities)	9	$148
Medtronic(2 entities)	4	$143
EMD Serono, Inc.	8	$118
Lilly USA, LLC	7	$109
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$107
Argenx US, Inc.	5	$96
Sanofi	5	$91
Abbott	4	$89
Biogen	4	$77
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	5	$62
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$61
Pfizer	4	$59
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$57
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	4	$57
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	3	$52
Eisai Inc.	2	$44
Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$42
AstraZeneca	2	$41
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$41
Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$39
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$35
Globus Medical	1	$34
TG Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$31
Novartis	2	$30
Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$27
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$27
Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.	1	$26
Genentech USA, Inc.	1	$26
UCB, Inc.	1	$19
Neurelis, Inc.	1	$19
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$18
CSL Behring	1	$15
Aprecia Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$15
Banner Life Sciences, LLC	1	$15
Johnson & Johnson	1	$14
Avanos Medical	1	$13
SK Life Science, Inc.	1	$12
Almatica Pharma LLC	1	$12
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$12
Livanova USA, Inc.	1	$11

How this compares

$2,476 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 128 pain medicine providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$94,331

Medicare patients

219

Services billed

836

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	1,184	$19,461
NucyntaTapentadol Hcl	16	$9,713
Gabapentin	321	$6,377
Pregabalin	127	$3,888
Tramadol Hcl	349	$2,783
Duloxetine Hcl	169	$2,673
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	170	$2,378
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl	13	$2,221
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	58	$1,393
Fentanyl	12	$1,329
Baclofen	32	$578
Oxycodone Hcl	53	$454
Morphine Sulfate	18	$436
Ropinirole Hcl	30	$410
Sumatriptan Succinate	12	$214

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Anderson

Meredith LanghorstFishers$1.5M
Derron WilsonCarmel$1.3M
Jonathan GentileCarmel$1.1M
Kevin MacadaegCarmel$866K
Robert FunkCarmel$417K
Andrew TrobridgeMuncie$266K
Abhishek DasMishawaka$186K
Rajiv TewariFishers$140K
John SwoffordIndianapolis$127K
Neal ColemanMuncie$38K

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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.

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