Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of October 4, 2026.
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James Peter Howard, MD

Individual provider Emergency Medicine Physician · NPI 1396940854

James Peter Howard, MD is registered under General Practice in Encinitas, California. Graduated from University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine in 2007, 19 years ago. Practices with Home Care MD Medical Group, a 15-clinician group, works from 2 locations, accepts Medicare assignment and offers telehealth. Licensed in California.

Years since qualifying
19
Trained at
University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine
Licensed in
CA
In the registry since
2007
Specialties on file
2
What do these letters mean?
MD — Doctor of Medicine
A physician who completed allopathic medical school.

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Practice location Address checks out

142 Encinitas Blvd
Encinitas, CA 92024-3657
Phone: (760) 230-1888
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Additional practice locations (1)

  • 6037 La Granada Suite C, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067 — (760) 230-1888

Specialties & licences

General Practice Physician (primary) Taxonomy 208D00000X · Licence A109689 (CA)
Emergency Medicine Physician Taxonomy 207P00000X · Licence A109689 (CA)

Record details

NPI number1396940854
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedJune 15, 2007
Last updated in NPPESMarch 27, 2024
Certification dateMarch 25, 2024

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyGENERAL PRACTICE
Also practisesEMERGENCY MEDICINE
Medical schoolUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII JOHN A. BURNS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Graduated 2007 (19 years in practice)
Group practice Home Care Md Medical Group — 15 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
TelehealthOffers telehealth services
Practice locations5 on file with Medicare

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

Removal of tissue 11 times · 62nd percentile
Removal of skin lesions 1–10 times

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients2,125
Services billed 14,038 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age75

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Food and Beverage $67 3 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

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Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

Colleagues at Home Care MD Medical Group

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 15 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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