Sheila Garris
Internal Medicine · Virginia Beach, VANPI 1629080031
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (40.8%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson at 51.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $9,540 and has fallen 96.0% since, to $379 in 2021. Among internal medicine clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 211 payments — averaging $88.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$10K
- Novo Nordisk$6K
- Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$549
- AstraZeneca$491
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$277
- Corcept Therapeutics$244
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,78031%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,65041%
- Travel & lodging$1,4578%
- Food & beverage$3,84921%
- Education$310%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 27 | $9,689 |
| Novo Nordisk | 31 | $6,123 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 6 | $549 |
| AstraZeneca | 24 | $491 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 18 | $277 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 14 | $244 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 14 | $232 |
| Amgen | 14 | $217 |
| Novartis | 10 | $165 |
| Merck | 10 | $144 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 7 | $106 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $90 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $83 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $79 |
| Insulet Corporation | 5 | $79 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $68 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 2 | $34 |
| GSK | 2 | $25 |
| Gilead | 1 | $23 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $12 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $11 |
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
$18,766 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,724 internal medicine providers in Virginia.
Other internal medicine in Virginia Beach
- Kumar AbhishekMechanicsville$1M
- Amit MahajanFalls Church$1M
- Kevin DonohueFalls Church$655K
- Denise BrunerArlington$227K
- Anjali KaloreMidlothian$215K
- Scott GerrishVienna$207K
- Lawrence SchwartzRichmond$205K
- Wally SmithRichmond$177K
- Gautam GulatiMc Lean$136K
- Francesse BatailleDumfries$109K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.