Garfield Samuels
Internal Medicine · Virginia Beach, VANPI 1083654669
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.2% of the total across 568 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 37 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,930 and has fallen 99.0% since, to $29 in 2025. Among internal medicine clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 568 payments — averaging $17.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$2K
- GSK$756
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$678
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$646
- Novo Nordisk$642
- Amgen$579
- plus $5K from 31 others
Across 63 payments — averaging $2265.10 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.
- Bayer$82K
- Kowa Research Institute, Inc.$42K
- Novo Nordisk AS$10K
- Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB$9K
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Bayer | 14 | $339 |
| 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
$10,010 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,724 internal medicine providers in Virginia.
Other internal medicine in Virginia Beach
- Sheila GarrisVirginia Beach$19K
- Kumar AbhishekMechanicsville$1M
- Amit MahajanFalls Church$1M
- Kevin DonohueFalls Church$655K
- Denise BrunerArlington$227K
- Anjali KaloreMidlothian$215K
- Scott GerrishVienna$207K
- Lawrence SchwartzRichmond$205K
- Wally SmithRichmond$177K
- Gautam GulatiMc Lean$136K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.