Stephen Howell, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Sacramento, CANPI 1972697704
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 783 payments — averaging $12,037 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$8.2M
- Zimmer Biomet$1.1M
- Think Surgical, Inc.$44K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$55
- Stryker$30
- Heraeus Medical, LLC.$16
Across 2 payments — averaging $16,931 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$34K
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 744 | $8,240,324 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 31 | $1,140,546 |
| Think Surgical, Inc. | 5 | $44,275 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Stryker | 1 | $30 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$9,425,246 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.
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 orthopaedic surgery in Sacramento
- Christopher KreulenSacramento$3.8M
- Alan HiraharaSacramento$3.4M
- Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
- Robert GorabOrange$14.5M
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
- Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
- Peter NewtonSan Diego$7M
- Nirav AminPlacentia$5.8M
- Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
- Jay LiebermanLos Angeles$4.8M
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.