Joshua Stone
Physician Assistant · Sweetwater, TXNPI 1891168928
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.9% of the total across 288 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 42 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 12.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,609 and has fallen 99.2% since, to $22 in 2024. Among physician assistant 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 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
- Brooke HodnickSouthlake$479K
- Holly GloverArlington$418K
- Kirk GautierAthens$416K
- Jaime RomanPlano$338K
- Michael WhiteDallas$276K
- Heidi JeffreysLubbock$259K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.