Michael Howard, MD
Plastic Surgery · Lake Forest, ILNPI 1366542789
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 31 payments — averaging $81.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Davol Inc.$1K
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$250
- AbbVie$246
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$201
- Baxter Healthcare$171
- Stryker$152
- plus $333 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$25010%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,00040%
- Food & beverage$1,27851%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $1,175 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $250 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $246 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 8 | $201 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $171 |
| Stryker | 1 | $152 |
| Abbott | 1 | $135 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Mesh Suture Inc | 1 | $54 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Smith+Nephew | 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.
- RECELL$250
- MAKO$152
- ARISTA$149
- ARTISS$146
- NAVITOR$135
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$124
- MemoryGel Breast Implants$100
How this compares
$2,528 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 191 plastic surgery providers in Illinois.
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.
Other plastic surgery in Lake Forest
- Anthony TerrasseLake Forest$25K
- Steven DayanChicago$3.2M
- Robert GalianoChicago$1M
- Saeed ChowdhryOak Lawn$419K
- Marco EllisChicago$225K
- Theresa CamberisArlington Heights$113K
- Michael LeeChicago$109K
- Karol GutowskiGlenview$53K
- Michael OgilvieOak Lawn$45K
- Renee BurkeHoffman Estates$43K
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.