Destiny Howell
Primary Care · Aiken, SCNPI 1053003954
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 59 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 59 payments — averaging $23.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$318
- Novo Nordisk$188
- Bayer$112
- AbbVie$98
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$91
- Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$83
- plus $471 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,360100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 12 | $318 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $188 |
| Bayer | 5 | $112 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $98 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 4 | $91 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $83 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 4 | $78 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $61 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $46 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $31 |
| GSK | 2 | $30 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $17 |
| Stryker | 1 | $16 |
| Novartis | 1 | $16 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- BREZTRI$125
How this compares
$1,360 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 115 primary care providers in South Carolina.
Other primary care in Aiken
- Holly SurrencyAiken$8K
- Sarah TomashefskiGreenville$23K
- Samantha VaughtNorth Myrtle Beach$15K
- Cynthia SmithSeneca$10K
- William ByrdSumter$10K
- Kathleen BoonePawleys Island$9K
- Amanda GroomeGreenville$9K
- Jessica BoldenAnderson$8K
- Caren ArnetteDillon$7K
- Heather MartinSeneca$7K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.