Has Alyson Thomas received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,664 in general payments to Alyson Thomas across 127 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 Alyson Thomas 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 Alyson Thomas 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.

Alyson Thomas

Psychiatric/Mental Health · Paducah, KYNPI 1992563951

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,664in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 127 payments — averaging $20.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$635
Alkermes, Inc.$439
AbbVie$426
Johnson & Johnson$301
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$196
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$149
plus $518 from 12 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,652100%
Education$120%

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
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	27	$635
Alkermes, Inc.	15	$439
AbbVie	37	$426
Johnson & Johnson	10	$301
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	6	$196
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	8	$149
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	5	$130
Lundbeck LLC	5	$107
Indivior Inc.	2	$39
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$38
Seqirus USA Inc	1	$38
Corium, LLC	2	$32
Novo Nordisk	2	$30
Biogen	1	$25
Medtronic	1	$25
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	1	$21
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$18
Exact Sciences	1	$15

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

$2,664 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 946 psychiatric/mental health providers in Kentucky.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
VraylarCariprazine Hcl	38	$72,382
RexultiBrexpiprazole	11	$15,917
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	13	$521
Duloxetine Hcl	27	$476
Hydroxyzine Pamoate	24	$306
Trazodone Hcl	31	$242
Prazosin Hcl	13	$202
Quetiapine Fumarate	23	$159
Sertraline Hcl	34	$111
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	11	$105
Buspirone Hcl	12	$66
Fluoxetine Hcl	11	$48

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

Company	Paid to this provider	Part D cost of their drugs
AbbVieVraylar	$426	$72,38238 claims
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Rexulti	$149	$15,91711 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 946 psychiatric/mental health providers in Kentucky.

Other psychiatric/mental health in Paducah

Derek RatliffPaducah$14K
Marilee BakerPaducah$8K
Theresa WattsAshland$645K
Rachel ColeHopkinsville$503K
Denise de AngelisLouisville$384K
Jennifer SampangCrestview Hills$322K
Jeremy FisherSouth Shore$197K
Jessica EstesLewisport$175K
Christopher MulloneyNancy$95K
Davika MattoxMorehead$79K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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