Amelia Merz
Psychiatry · Berwyn, ILNPI 1770637399
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 114 payments — averaging $20.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$320
- Johnson & Johnson$307
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$285
- AbbVie$269
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$207
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$161
- plus $837 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,28196%
- Education$1064%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 10 | $320 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $307 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 11 | $285 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 17 | $269 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 11 | $207 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 6 | $161 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 13 | $143 |
| Neuronetics, Inc. | 4 | $113 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $109 |
| Corium, LLC | 4 | $90 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $63 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 2 | $30 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 2 | $28 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 2 | $24 |
| Orexo US, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Biogen | 1 | $21 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- AUSTEDO$124
- TRINTELLIX$115
How this compares
$2,388 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,344 psychiatry providers in Illinois.
Other psychiatry in Berwyn
- Jeffrey RossNorthbrook$10.8M
- Yuhwen ChowChicago$8.5M
- Mark LermanNorthbrook$4.5M
- Danesh AlamWinfield$2.7M
- John ZajeckaSkokie$2.5M
- Riaz BaberNaperville$2.4M
- Michael GreenbaumLibertyville$2.2M
- Sandeep GaonkarNaperville$1.8M
- Jon GrantChicago$1.4M
- David KempOak Lawn$1.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.