Keith Garrison
Internal Medicine · El Paso, TXNPI 1245868637
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 128 payments — averaging $31.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated$993
- AbbVie$924
- Johnson & Johnson$595
- Cook Medical LLC$365
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$262
- Ardelyx, Inc.$232
- plus $665 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,18229%
- Food & beverage$2,68166%
- Education$1724%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated | 2 | $993 |
| AbbVie | 51 | $924 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 27 | $595 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 5 | $365 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 11 | $262 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 8 | $232 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $156 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 4 | $152 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 3 | $95 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $73 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $39 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $34 |
| Gilead | 1 | $29 |
| Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$4,035 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 49 | $849 |
| Omeprazole | 16 | $489 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 22 | $145 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in El Paso
- Javier VasalloEl Paso$2.5M
- Jan BurgerHouston$47.3M
- Nitin JainHouston$33.2M
- Muhammad IrfanTomball$30.6M
- Aung NaingHouston$30.6M
- Robert BassSan Antonio$25.6M
- Preetesh JainHouston$19.5M
- Paolo StratiHouston$19.2M
- Hernan SalazarSan Antonio$18.5M
- Nicholas ShortHouston$17.6M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.