Kimberly Ellis Garris
Family Medicine · Fort Sam Houston, TXNPI 1922176676
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 1 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson. That places this record below the midpoint for family medicine clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $436.
Across 1 payment — averaging $12.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$12
Across 189 payments — averaging $18,326 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.
- Valneva Austria GmbH$1.5M
- Johnson & Johnson$927K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$818K
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$77K
- Ferring International Pharmascience Center US$53K
- Bausch Health US, LLC$51K
- plus $86K from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$12100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$12 in reported general payments places this provider in the 0th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.
Other family medicine in Fort Sam Houston
- Carlos CamposNew Braunfels$1.5M
- Aaron KingSan Antonio$1.1M
- Bradley WassonArlington$734K
- Cynthia BrinsonAustin$402K
- Michael MendezLubbock$368K
- Sang Tae KimAmarillo$368K
- Sumit PerakathuHarlingen$342K
- Joel SolisMcAllen$324K
- Robert CampbellFort Worth$318K
- Jose LedezmaEdinburg$300K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.