Balaji Saravanan, MD
Psychiatry · Lorain, OHNPI 1538351358
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 52 payments — averaging $22.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$351
- Johnson & Johnson$337
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$178
- AbbVie$108
- Alkermes, Inc.$69
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$48
- plus $81 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,171100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 20 | $351 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $337 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 10 | $178 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $108 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 2 | $48 |
| Indivior Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Neuronetics, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- SPRAVATO$274
How this compares
$1,171 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,119 psychiatry providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Paliperidone ErPaliperidone | 26 | $1,916 |
| Fluphenazine Hcl | 32 | $1,723 |
| Lurasidone Hcl | 14 | $1,262 |
| Aripiprazole | 15 | $502 |
| Divalproex Sodium | 68 | $493 |
| Oxcarbazepine | 33 | $415 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate ErQuetiapine Fumarate | 20 | $354 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 95 | $264 |
| Divalproex Sodium ErDivalproex Sodium | 14 | $245 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 56 | $244 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl | 34 | $182 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 33 | $170 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 23 | $112 |
| Benztropine Mesylate | 30 | $107 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 38 | $106 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other psychiatry in Lorain
- Shishuka MalhotraCanton$15M
- Henry NasrallahCincinnati$3.8M
- Otto DuenoDayton$3.1M
- Diab AlmhanaAvon Lake$2.7M
- Mohamed Abdel AzizWest Chester$2.6M
- Fred RomeoColumbus$2.3M
- Mark WoyshvilleMiddleburg Heights$2.2M
- Amita PatelDayton$2.1M
- Caleb AdlerCincinnati$2M
- Richard SandersDayton$1.8M
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.