RxDoctor Payments Data

Marcus Howell, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Grand Junction, CONPI 1598701542

Payments from drug & device makers

$653in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $21.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$87
  • Boston Scientific$83
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$60
  • Amgen$59
  • Endologix LLC$51
  • Tactile Systems Technology Inc$46
  • plus $266 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$653100%

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

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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.

How this compares

$653 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 276 cardiovascular disease providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$175,436
Medicare patients
1,408
Services billed
2,571

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban31$51,009
XareltoRivaroxaban37$50,973
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan19$30,862
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab38$29,662
Praluent PenAlirocumab13$12,457
BrilintaTicagrelor12$8,411
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl12$4,240
Atorvastatin Calcium137$1,591
Carvedilol122$1,550
Metoprolol Succinate108$1,390
Rosuvastatin Calcium78$1,073
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate68$944
Ezetimibe34$833
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl30$749
Spironolactone56$697

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$32$50,97337 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 30th percentile of 276 cardiovascular disease providers in Colorado.

Other cardiovascular disease in Grand Junction

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