Christos Howard
Family Medicine · Orange, CANPI 1437140811
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 227 payments — averaging $28.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$1K
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$1K
- AstraZeneca$836
- Johnson & Johnson$636
- Bayer$265
- AbbVie$255
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$120%
- Food & beverage$6,374100%
- Education$180%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 37 | $1,082 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 38 | $1,050 |
| AstraZeneca | 24 | $836 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 33 | $636 |
| Bayer | 3 | $265 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $255 |
| GSK | 19 | $237 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $228 |
| Novo Nordisk | 14 | $224 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $162 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $160 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $152 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $130 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $103 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 5 | $80 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 3 | $73 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $60 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $45 |
| Novartis | 2 | $42 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $42 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $35 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $28 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$6,404 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 20 | $8,658 |
| Ezetimibe | 52 | $1,515 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 13 | $772 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 33 | $531 |
| Olmesartan Medoxomil | 14 | $401 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 28 | $284 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 23 | $241 |
| Carvedilol | 11 | $101 |
| Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl | 14 | $68 |
| Simvastatin | 16 | $52 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieSynthroid | $255 | $77213 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 90th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.
Other family medicine in Orange
- Amina HaggagNorthridge$112.8M
- Steven ReynoldsLong Beach$53M
- Rizwana MohseniLake Forest$26.7M
- Daniel JohnsonSan Diego$15.7M
- Stacey LayleSan Diego$14.8M
- Apinya VutikullirdCypress$14.3M
- Hanid AudishSpring Valley$13.6M
- Augusto FocilOxnard$12.6M
- Jack VuLong Beach$10.1M
- Suzanne FussellOxnard$8.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.