Lauren Howe, PA
Physician Assistant · Munster, INNPI 1306216981
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (54.1%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 30 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.8%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $14,442, more than ten times the $252 reported in 2021. Among physician assistant clinicians in IN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 723 payments — averaging $38.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$6K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$3K
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$3K
- Dermavant Sciences, Inc.$2K
- Novartis$2K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$1K
- plus $10K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,5189%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,99025%
- Travel & lodging$2,3148%
- Food & beverage$15,14854%
- Education$1,0384%
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 | 31 | $6,388 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 43 | $3,351 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 35 | $3,183 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 38 | $2,284 |
| Novartis | 106 | $1,622 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 58 | $1,331 |
| AbbVie | 56 | $1,118 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 37 | $1,101 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 34 | $1,017 |
| UCB, Inc. | 33 | $954 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 51 | $925 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 36 | $891 |
| Sanofi | 48 | $790 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 29 | $643 |
| Organon | 16 | $478 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $282 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $269 |
| Incyte Corporation | 11 | $238 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 3 | $223 |
| Medimetriks Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $173 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $159 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 9 | $142 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 11 | $135 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 6 | $56 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Elekta, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Almirall LLC | 3 | $50 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $17 |
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.
How this compares
$28,008 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,955 physician assistant providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 15 | $852 |
| Ketoconazole | 52 | $519 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 29 | $392 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 12 | $347 |
| Fluocinonide | 13 | $312 |
| Mupirocin | 24 | $204 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 16 | $132 |
| Fluconazole | 26 | $106 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Munster
- Hannah HazlewoodMunster$8K
- Kristen GumpfCarmel$142K
- Andrew NordIndianapolis$47K
- Qun Ming ZhangIndianapolis$28K
- A FergusonFort Wayne$22K
- Jacquelyn BeemerFort Wayne$21K
- Lindsay YoderIndianapolis$21K
- Eryn GormanClinton$18K
- Audrey HewittBloomington$17K
- Mackenzie LawsonIndianapolis$15K
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.