Ariel Newton
Psychiatric/Mental Health · Nashville, TNNPI 1427504539
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.4% of the total across 418 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 27 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among psychiatric/mental health clinicians in TN 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 418 payments — averaging $23.92 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.)$2K
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$1K
- Alkermes, Inc.$834
- AbbVie$834
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$752
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$699
- plus $4K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$9,93799%
- Education$601%
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.) | 64 | $1,800 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 64 | $1,487 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 35 | $834 |
| AbbVie | 69 | $834 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 38 | $752 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 16 | $699 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 16 | $604 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 20 | $536 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $462 |
| Corium, LLC | 15 | $334 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 13 | $311 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $206 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10 | $168 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 10 | $157 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 8 | $156 |
| Biogen | 2 | $142 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $105 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $94 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $75 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 4 | $63 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Indivior Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $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.
How this compares
$9,998 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,167 psychiatric/mental health providers in Tennessee.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Duloxetine Hcl | 21 | $594 |
| Aripiprazole | 16 | $331 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 48 | $312 |
| Oxcarbazepine | 11 | $295 |
| Bupropion Hcl SrBupropion Hcl | 13 | $254 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl | 30 | $241 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 21 | $225 |
| Fluoxetine Hcl | 11 | $145 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other psychiatric/mental health in Nashville
- Kristian DambrinoNashville$449K
- Lauren HansenNashville$263K
- Aaron JonesNashville$20K
- Kathleen McCoyNashville$12K
- Preeti SrivastavaNashville$11K
- Kersten WoodleeNashville$10K
- Robert McKeownNashville$10K
- Debra YorkNashville$9K
- Laura MelaroBolivar$682K
- Fay BembryJohnson City$449K
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.