Kimberly Howell
Surgery · Johnstown, PANPI 1194343186
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 51 payments — averaging $30.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kerecis Limited$286
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$266
- Johnson & Johnson$243
- Stryker$93
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$78
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$69
- plus $544 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,44191%
- Education$1379%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $286 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $266 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $243 |
| Stryker | 4 | $93 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $78 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 5 | $69 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $56 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $54 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $36 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $34 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $31 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $30 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $30 |
| Mindray DS USA, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $20 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Werfen USA LLC | 1 | $14 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Kerecis SurgiClose$985
- Kerecis GraftGuide$246
- VISTASEAL$129
How this compares
$1,578 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,424 surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 25 | $93 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Johnstown
- Giorgos KarakousisPhiladelphia$8.8M
- James MarkmannPhiladelphia$1.8M
- John MiuraPhiladelphia$1.3M
- Martin WijkstromPittsburgh$1.3M
- Andy KiserPittsburgh$1.1M
- Blair JobePittsburgh$827K
- Glenn SteeleDanville$698K
- Olwadamilola FayanjuPhiladelphia$668K
- Maher El ChaarAllentown$667K
- George EidPittsburgh$623K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.