Tessa Garst
Physician Assistant · Brandon, FLNPI 1760208656
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 118 payments — averaging $21.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$400
- Johnson & Johnson$264
- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$209
- Ardelyx, Inc.$193
- Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$191
- Gilead$187
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,486100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 22 | $400 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $264 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 5 | $209 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 21 | $193 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $191 |
| Gilead | 10 | $187 |
| Amgen | 3 | $184 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 11 | $156 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $109 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $99 |
| Vivus LLC | 4 | $86 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $85 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $59 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $54 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $43 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $23 |
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
$2,486 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 8,062 physician assistant providers in Florida.
Other physician assistant in Brandon
- Omar DaabiesBrandon$46K
- Richard MarshallPort Orange$988K
- Audrey BeckerSt Augustine$689K
- Kevin WilliamsTampa$647K
- Brian BonomoLecanto$559K
- Melissa SingletonOcala$482K
- Reeli ReinuMaitland$427K
- Jeanelle KingMiami$424K
- Risha BellomoOrlando$397K
- Jason BergerClearwater$344K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.