Stacey Howell
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Orange, CANPI 1609290774
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 304 payments — averaging $259.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$40K
- Medtronic$26K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$7K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Biotronik Inc.$480
- Boston Scientific$430
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,0008%
- Grants$57,06872%
- Travel & lodging$3,6475%
- Food & beverage$11,71215%
- Education$3790%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 104 | $40,312 |
| Medtronic | 13 | $26,462 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 72 | $6,930 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $1,875 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 6 | $480 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $430 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 16 | $305 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $288 |
| Novartis | 13 | $270 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 9 | $263 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $223 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 16 | $177 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $95 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $93 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $88 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $79 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $69 |
| Merck | 4 | $68 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $54 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $47 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $15 |
| ZOLL Respicardia, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Carto 3$7,211
- ENSITE PRECISION$2,355
- AVEIR$2,247
- Micra$545
- AMPLATZER AMULET$413
- ENSITE$319
- LINQ II$313
- GALLANT$273
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$223
- EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System$188
- GMK SPHERE$173
- TACTICATH ABLATION CATHETER, SENSOR ENABLED$152
- EMBLEM MRI S-ICD$148
- Edora 8 DR-T$137
- BioMonitor$126
- SPHERIKA$115
How this compares
$78,806 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 290 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 294 | $260,729 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 146 | $156,966 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 15 | $14,193 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 304 | $4,402 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 62 | $1,820 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 28 | $674 |
| Carvedilol | 72 | $667 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 46 | $630 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 63 | $506 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 18 | $131 |
| Lisinopril | 22 | $124 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 39 | $111 |
| Furosemide | 24 | $74 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $39 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq | $79 | $156,966146 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $47 | $14,19315 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 65th percentile of 290 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in California.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Orange
- Andy LeeOrange$366K
- David KrummenSan Diego$7.3M
- Jonathan DukesVentura$2.9M
- Shephal DoshiSanta Monica$2.9M
- Arash AryanaSacramento$2.4M
- Marco PerezStanford$2.1M
- Rahul DoshiLos Angeles$2M
- Mayer RashtianPasadena$1.8M
- Rajesh BankerNewport Beach$1.6M
- Edward GerstenfeldSan Francisco$1.5M
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.