Howard Schmidt
Pediatric Pulmonology · Richmond, VANPI 1851484224
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $7,570 of the $12,479 with a category attached, or 60.7%. Vertex accounts for 86.1% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Among pediatric pulmonology clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 35 payments — averaging $356.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vertex$11K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$2K
Across 42 payments — averaging $9662.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Vertex$357K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$39K
- AbbVie$4K
- Boehringer Ingelheim France S.a.s.$4K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$841
- Vivus LLC$555
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,57061%
- Travel & lodging$4,27034%
- Food & beverage$6395%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vertex | 26 | $10,750 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 9 | $1,729 |
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.
- SYMDEKO$10,443
How this compares
$12,479 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 23 pediatric pulmonology providers in Virginia.
Other pediatric pulmonology in Richmond
- Bruce RubinRichmond$156K
- Michael SchechterRichmond$71K
- Dagnachew AssefaRichmond$2K
- James LothianRichmond$389
- Judith VoynowRichmond$102
- Aditi PantRichmond$18
- Richard KravitzCharlottesville$12K
- Sunil KapoorFairfax$4K
- Melody HawkinsFairfax$1K
- Pearl YuCharlottesville$1K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.