Donald Garcia
Psychiatry · Austin, TXNPI 1881925568
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $8,832 of the $9,294 with a category attached, or 95.0%. Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. accounts for 86.5% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,040, more than ten times the $462 reported in 2021. Among psychiatry clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 6 payments — averaging $1548.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$8K
- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$792
- AbbVie$462
Across 684 payments — averaging $10,050 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.
- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$2.1M
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$1.4M
- AbbVie$1.4M
- Sage Therapeutics, LLC$939K
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$424K
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$254K
- plus $368K from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8,83295%
- Travel & lodging$3294%
- Food & beverage$1331%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $8,040 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. | 1 | $792 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $462 |
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.
- BOTOX$462
How this compares
$9,294 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,238 psychiatry providers in Texas.
Other psychiatry in Austin
- Arvinder Pal WaliaAustin$2.5M
- Charles NemeroffAustin$429K
- Divyansu PatelAustin$50K
- Rakesh JainLake Jackson$7.2M
- Suresh SureddiPlano$2.2M
- Martin GuerreroEl Paso$2M
- Marty BennettAddison$1.8M
- Matthew BramsHouston$1.5M
- Vikram MehraKaty$1.2M
- Joel HolinerDallas$948K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.