Has Alan Axelson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $856 in general payments to Alan Axelson, MD across 38 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Alan Axelson, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Alan Axelson, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Alan Axelson, MD

Psychiatry · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1447224910

Payments from drug & device makers

$856in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 38 payments — averaging $22.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$469
Alkermes, Inc.$69
Corium, LLC$69
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$44
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$42
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$33
plus $129 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$856100%

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)	19	$469
Alkermes, Inc.	3	$69
Corium, LLC	3	$69
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$44
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$42
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$33
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	2	$32
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	2	$31
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$29
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$19
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$17

How this compares

$856 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,838 psychiatry providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$10,080

Medicare patients

Services billed

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide	11	$6,096
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	97	$2,298
Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine	70	$1,773
Clomipramine Hcl	12	$1,731
Duloxetine Hcl	127	$1,406
Clonazepam	232	$895
Trazodone Hcl	58	$886
Methylphenidate Hcl	31	$733
Quetiapine Fumarate	47	$712
Lamotrigine	48	$681
Escitalopram Oxalate	31	$539
Ziprasidone Hcl	11	$531
Fluoxetine Hcl	30	$526
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl	11	$512
Sertraline Hcl	58	$460

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatry in Pittsburgh

Rebecca RomaPittsburgh$3.3M
Mayer AyyashPittsburgh$714K
Leon RavinPittsburgh$106K
Barbara NightingalePittsburgh$93K
Robert HowlandPittsburgh$57K
Mark FullerPittsburgh$38K
Antoine DouaihyPittsburgh$30K
Konasale PrasadPittsburgh$26K
Cherian VergheseNorristown$16.3M
Steven ArnoldPhiladelphia$4.1M

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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