Timothy Howard, MD
Pain Medicine · Wilson, NCNPI 1366700932
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 95 payments — averaging $52.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vertiflex, Inc.$2K
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$510
- Nevro Corp.$258
- Abbott$251
- Si-bone, Inc.$230
- plus $740 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,41848%
- Food & beverage$2,57152%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 7 | $1,744 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 11 | $1,256 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 15 | $510 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $258 |
| Abbott | 17 | $251 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $230 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $192 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $144 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $77 |
| Amgen | 3 | $45 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $44 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $42 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Superion ISS$1,612
- mild Device Kit$931
- Senza$258
- INTELLIS$139
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$122
How this compares
$4,989 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 182 pain medicine providers in North Carolina.
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 | 336 | $7,724 |
| Buprenorphine | 38 | $7,458 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 150 | $5,043 |
| Gabapentin | 330 | $4,986 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 147 | $1,235 |
| Lidocaine | 13 | $1,211 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 113 | $1,037 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 82 | $1,023 |
| Pregabalin | 42 | $633 |
| Meloxicam | 149 | $483 |
| Methocarbamol | 24 | $454 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 50 | $401 |
| Celecoxib | 24 | $347 |
| Naproxen | 18 | $219 |
| Baclofen | 23 | $211 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Wilson
- Leonardo KapuralWinston Salem$4.1M
- James NorthWinston Salem$3.7M
- Richard RauckWinston Salem$1.7M
- Christopher GilmoreWinston Salem$1.3M
- Binit ShahHuntersville$863K
- Jeffrey PeacockWinston Salem$553K
- Courtney AumanJacksonville$210K
- Javid BakshAsheville$202K
- David ZubLeland$168K
- Jacob WangCharlotte$162K
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.