Steven Howell, MD
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Wichita, KSNPI 1881664068
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Stryker accounts for 86.4% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $991 and has fallen 89.6% since, to $103 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for foot and ankle surgery clinicians in KS, where the typical reported total is $2,742.
Across 30 payments — averaging $54.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$55
- Exactech, Inc.$34
- Nevro Corp.$30
- Smith+Nephew$29
- Johnson & Johnson$28
- plus $44 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$74546%
- Food & beverage$87554%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 20 | $1,400 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $30 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $29 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $28 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $16 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 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.
- INBONE$441
- PROSTEP MICA$304
- PROPHECY$172
- INFINITY ADAPTIS$110
How this compares
$1,620 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 40 foot and ankle surgery providers in Kansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 63 | $917 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 56 | $808 |
| Cefadroxil | 129 | $214 |
| Cephalexin | 32 | $99 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 13 | $57 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Wichita
- John FanningWichita$6K
- David SanchezWichita$6K
- Shawn MorrowWichita$3K
- Jon MorganWichita$1K
- Kent HeadyWichita$799
- Greg HortonKansas City$1.1M
- Melissa JournotLeawood$26K
- Zhipeng YangKansas City$25K
- Patrick McGregorLawrence$24K
- Andrea DrielingHutchinson$16K
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.