Debra Howard
Medical · Knoxville, TNNPI 1164942355
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 147 payments — averaging $18.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$884
- Aspira Women's Health Inc$282
- Myovant Sciences Inc.$228
- Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC$226
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$204
- AstraZeneca$125
- plus $762 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,711100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 58 | $884 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 6 | $282 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 12 | $228 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 17 | $226 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 10 | $204 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $125 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 6 | $114 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $101 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 4 | $82 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $70 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 4 | $64 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $62 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Organon | 2 | $30 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| BD | 1 | $23 |
| Millicent US Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Lupin Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Neuronetics, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- FARXIGA$125
How this compares
$2,711 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 480 medical providers in Tennessee.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Estradiol | 23 | $927 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other medical in Knoxville
- Stephanie HowardKnoxville$18K
- Janet BreedingKnoxville$15K
- Paul MabenKnoxville$13K
- Tara PiankoKnoxville$8K
- Jaan KellyKnoxville$6K
- Tonya JonesKnoxville$5K
- Maria WoodChattanooga$130K
- Alyssa JamesonFranklin$65K
- Melissa LambertHendersonville$47K
- Evan HatfillNashville$18K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.