Gary Hawkins
Physician Assistant · Santa Barbara, CANPI 1720090434
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,982 of the $3,565 with a category attached, or 83.6%. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 89 payments — averaging $40.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$854
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$690
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$407
- Abiomed$401
- Novartis$276
- AstraZeneca$183
- plus $756 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$58316%
- Food & beverage$2,98284%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 23 | $854 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $690 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 14 | $407 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $401 |
| Novartis | 14 | $276 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $183 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $160 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $100 |
| Amgen | 6 | $96 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $41 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Merck | 2 | $38 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $27 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $23 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Bayer | 1 | $22 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $20 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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
$3,565 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 10,423 physician assistant providers in California.
Other physician assistant in Santa Barbara
- Jessica BarkerSanta Barbara$56K
- Andrea NguyenIrvine$1M
- Mikhail AlperMadera$889K
- Erin JensenUpland$716K
- Franklin ClineSacramento$458K
- Carla CrespoMarina del Rey$297K
- Katherine OsakiEl Centro$274K
- Shawna JonesFountain Valley$266K
- Heather AustinSalinas$219K
- Andrea FoxStanford$172K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.