Samantha Eshelman
Physician Assistant · Austin, TXNPI 1124510102
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 787 payments — averaging $19.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Alkermes, Inc.$2K
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$2K
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$1K
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$849
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$694
- plus $7K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$14,76999%
- Education$2121%
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(2 entities) | 92 | $1,825 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 87 | $1,667 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 83 | $1,623 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 56 | $1,436 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 25 | $849 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 39 | $694 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 28 | $683 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 43 | $667 |
| Corium, LLC | 35 | $621 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 39 | $568 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 29 | $568 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 41 | $564 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 19 | $538 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 48 | $516 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 24 | $359 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 24 | $330 |
| Eisai Inc. | 10 | $244 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 14 | $235 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $138 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $110 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $110 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $104 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $103 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 5 | $101 |
| OWP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $83 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $53 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $45 |
| Merck | 3 | $36 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $20 |
| Biogen | 1 | $15 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 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.
- LYBALVI$1,828
- CAPLYTA$560
- ARISTADA$468
- VRAYLAR$338
- REXULTI$238
- AUSTEDO$230
- Austedo XR$224
- QELBREE$214
- Auvelity$125
- Dayvigo$122
- JORNAY PM$118
- ARISTADA INITIO$117
- INGREZZA$115
- Dyanavel XR$108
- Quillivant$108
- Quillichew ER$108
- ABILIFY MAINTENA$101
How this compares
$14,981 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Duloxetine Hcl | 16 | $325 |
| Lamotrigine | 17 | $290 |
| Lorazepam | 26 | $194 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 12 | $114 |
| Alprazolam | 12 | $57 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Austin
- Selina SantosAustin$543K
- Stephen IngramAustin$215K
- Cynthia TrickettDallas$1.3M
- Kristine KuceraMelissa$797K
- Matthew BrunoMcKinney$538K
- Anthony DerenciusSan Antonio$507K
- Brooke HodnickSouthlake$479K
- Holly GloverArlington$418K
- Kirk GautierAthens$416K
- Jaime RomanPlano$338K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.