Eric Howell
Dermatology · Greenville, NCNPI 1285834788
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 220 payments — averaging $23.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- Merz North America, Inc.$550
- LEO Pharma Inc.$466
- Johnson & Johnson$443
- Amgen$188
- Novartis$166
- plus $626 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,00020%
- Food & beverage$3,86576%
- Education$2234%
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(2 entities) | 109 | $2,649 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 3 | $550 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 30 | $466 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 27 | $443 |
| Amgen | 9 | $188 |
| Novartis | 9 | $166 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $116 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $78 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $37 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 2 | $34 |
| Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $19 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $15 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Organon | 2 | $13 |
| Strata Skin Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $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.
- PuraPly AM$116
How this compares
$5,088 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 475 dermatology providers in North Carolina.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| SkyriziRisankizumab-Rzaa | 13 | $274,150 |
| Dupixent SyringeDupilumab | 60 | $272,947 |
| StelaraUstekinumab | 12 | $202,976 |
| Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab | 26 | $188,780 |
| OtezlaApremilast | 36 | $185,249 |
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 14 | $181,612 |
| Cosentyx (2 Syringes)Secukinumab | 11 | $79,869 |
| Acitretin | 53 | $20,364 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 311 | $11,292 |
| Fluorouracil | 153 | $9,821 |
| Fluocinonide | 85 | $4,872 |
| Mometasone Furoate | 280 | $4,369 |
| Tretinoin | 54 | $3,380 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 265 | $3,240 |
| Calcipotriene | 21 | $2,962 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieSkyrizi | $2,649 | $274,15013 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonStelara | $443 | $202,97612 claims |
| AmgenOtezla | $188 | $185,24936 claims |
| NovartisCosentyx (2 Syringes) | $166 | $79,86911 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 65th percentile of 475 dermatology providers in North Carolina.
Other dermatology in Greenville
- Rosalyn GeorgeWilmington$6.5M
- Steven FeldmanWinston Salem$4.3M
- Adnan NasirRaleigh$4.1M
- Christopher SayedChapel Hill$3.3M
- Zoe DraelosHigh Point$3M
- Aida Lugo-SomolinosChapel Hill$2.2M
- Nicole SeminaraHuntersville$2.1M
- Sue Ellen CoxChapel Hill$1.8M
- Patrick McElgunnCharlotte$1.6M
- Kevin SteinWinston Salem$1.2M
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.