Joshua Stone
Physician Assistant · Sweetwater, TXNPI 1891168928
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 288 payments — averaging $18.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$647
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$579
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$404
- Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$388
- Kyowa Kirin, Inc.$291
- Novartis$247
- plus $3K from 36 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,33499%
- Education$621%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 36 | $647 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 33 | $579 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 34 | $404 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 32 | $388 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 11 | $291 |
| Novartis | 18 | $247 |
| Corium, LLC | 8 | $230 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 11 | $218 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 14 | $191 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 7 | $187 |
| Amgen | 9 | $176 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $163 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $162 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 11 | $159 |
| Biogen | 9 | $159 |
| Abbott | 6 | $123 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 3 | $101 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $99 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $87 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 3 | $84 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $38 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $33 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $33 |
| TG Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| GSK | 2 | $32 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $31 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $28 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $25 |
| Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$5,395 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 11 | $66 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Sweetwater
- Cynthia TrickettDallas$1.3M
- Kristine KuceraMelissa$797K
- Selina SantosAustin$543K
- Matthew BrunoMcKinney$538K
- Anthony DerenciusSan Antonio$507K
- Brooke HodnickSouthlake$479K
- Holly GloverArlington$418K
- Kirk GautierAthens$416K
- Jaime RomanPlano$338K
- Michael WhiteDallas$276K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.