Howard Johnson
Family Medicine · Morehead City, NCNPI 1679572747
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 53 payments — averaging $15.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$149
- AbbVie$110
- Novo Nordisk$46
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$44
- Lilly USA, LLC$41
- Cequr Corporation$37
- plus $372 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$798100%
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 | 12 | $149 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $110 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $46 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $44 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $41 |
| Cequr Corporation | 1 | $37 |
| Abbott | 2 | $37 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $31 |
| Merck | 2 | $30 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $27 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $26 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $26 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $19 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$798 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 3,444 family medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 37 | $31,539 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 25 | $20,046 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 16 | $19,669 |
| Omeprazole | 219 | $3,463 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 19 | $2,357 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 228 | $2,143 |
| Gabapentin | 150 | $2,104 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 117 | $2,056 |
| Losartan Potassium | 190 | $1,864 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 189 | $1,789 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 136 | $1,657 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 11 | $1,466 |
| Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 16 | $1,412 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 49 | $1,360 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 87 | $1,067 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $26 | $31,53937 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $26 | $20,04625 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $110 | $1,46611 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 3,444 family medicine providers in North Carolina.
Other family medicine in Morehead City
- Ku Lang ChangMorehead City$153K
- Barton WilliamsWilmington$17.3M
- Alexander MurrayGreensboro$13M
- Arin PiramzadianJacksonville$13M
- Jonathan WilsonHickory$12.7M
- George RaadCharlotte$7.7M
- Cecil FarringtonSalisbury$6.4M
- Christian MartinShelby$5.4M
- John EarlHickory$4.7M
- Patrick MorganteHavelock$4.6M
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.