Timothy Howard, MD
Family Medicine · Huntsville, ALNPI 1619964343
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $461 of the $664 with a category attached, or 69.4%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 30.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $203 and has fallen 62.6% since, to $76 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for family medicine clinicians in AL, where the typical reported total is $638.
Across 18 payments — averaging $36.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$203
- Boehringer Ingelheim$122
- Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$70
- Abiomed$60
- AbbVie$54
- Organogenesis Inc.$30
- plus $125 from 9 others
Across 166 payments — averaging $18,259 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.
- Beckman Coulter, Inc.$1.5M
- Pfizer$874K
- Bavarian Nordic A/s$614K
- AbbVie$54K
- Modernatx, Inc.$15K
- AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$9K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$20331%
- Food & beverage$46169%
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 | 1 | $203 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $122 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $70 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $60 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $54 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $13 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $13 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Organon | 1 | $6 |
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
$664 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,680 family medicine providers in Alabama.
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 family medicine in Huntsville
- Kathleen DupperHuntsville$210K
- Whitney TewHuntsville$114K
- Daniel EnglertHuntsville$82K
- Jack EnglertHuntsville$37K
- Tobin FisherHuntsville$33K
- David ShowersHuntsville$18K
- Christopher OhalloranHuntsville$18K
- Michael HoneywellHuntsville$17K
- Prasanna AlladaHuntsville$16K
- Lashelle BarmoreBirmingham$486K
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.