RxDoctor Payments Data

Sheri Howell, MD

Family Medicine · Helena, MTNPI 1104927722

Payments from drug & device makers

$615in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $14.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$312
  • Pfizer$114
  • AbbVie$53
  • Novo Nordisk$39
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$31
  • Amgen$21
  • plus $45 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$615100%

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

19
20
22
23

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.

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

$615 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 426 family medicine providers in Montana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$279,403
Medicare patients
222
Services billed
11,529

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
EliquisApixaban76$83,953
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter20$30,092
XareltoRivaroxaban30$26,767
OzempicSemaglutide22$25,485
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol26$20,737
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol21$15,555
MounjaroTirzepatide14$14,375
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol11$10,231
PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated12$6,259
Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol14$5,802
Levothyroxine Sodium346$3,277
Metoprolol Succinate137$2,589
Duloxetine Hcl151$2,455
Atorvastatin Calcium283$2,277
Potassium Chloride43$1,951

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
PfizerEliquis, Premarin$114$90,21188 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere$312$30,96837 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$39$25,48522 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$19$14,37514 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$53$1,94429 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 80th percentile of 426 family medicine providers in Montana.

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