Has Garfield Samuels received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $123,622 in general payments to Garfield Samuels across 620 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Garfield Samuels did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Garfield Samuels come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Garfield Samuels

Internal Medicine · Virginia Beach, VANPI 1083654669

Payments from drug & device makers

$123,622in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 620 payments — averaging $199.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Bayer$82K
Kowa Research Institute, Inc.$13K
Novo Nordisk AS$10K
Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB$9K
AstraZeneca$2K
GSK$756
plus $7K from 34 others

$29,089in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $2644.45 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.

Kowa Research Institute, Inc.$29K

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$9,83498%
Education$1762%

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
Bayer	53	$82,158
Kowa Research Institute, Inc.	4	$13,235
Novo Nordisk AS	6	$9,825
Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB	3	$8,734
AstraZeneca	90	$1,810
GSK	41	$756
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	54	$678
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	34	$646
Novo Nordisk	45	$642
Amgen(2 entities)	18	$579
Pfizer	36	$566
Lilly USA, LLC	33	$564
AbbVie(2 entities)	30	$486
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	30	$436
Astellas Pharma US Inc	15	$362
Boehringer Ingelheim	19	$328
Johnson & Johnson	24	$320
Biogen	12	$222
Novartis	13	$208
Mylan Specialty L.p.	9	$140
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$117
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$102
MDD US Operations, LLC	4	$96
UCB, Inc.	4	$92
Abbott	3	$63
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	4	$62
Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$46
Bardy Diagnostics, Inc.	3	$44
Kaleo, Inc.	3	$41
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$33
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	2	$32
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	2	$31
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$29
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	3	$29
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$29
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	1	$24
Eisai Inc.	1	$19
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$15
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$13
USWM, LLC	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.

How this compares

$123,622 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,724 internal medicine providers in Virginia.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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