Has Bebongchu Nkemasong, APRN received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,655 in general payments to Bebongchu Nkemasong, APRN across 78 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 Bebongchu Nkemasong, APRN 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 Bebongchu Nkemasong, APRN 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.

Bebongchu Nkemasong, APRN

Psychiatric/Mental Health · Columbus, OHNPI 1962050187

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,655in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 78 payments — averaging $46.85 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.)$897
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$883
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$407
AbbVie$296
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$245
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$176
plus $751 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$3,60899%
Education$471%

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.)	13	$897
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	19	$883
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	4	$407
AbbVie	13	$296
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$245
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	6	$176
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	1	$121
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	5	$109
Johnson & Johnson	1	$99
Alkermes, Inc.	1	$91
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.	1	$89
Lundbeck LLC	3	$64
Sage Therapeutics, LLC	1	$63
Indivior Inc.	3	$58
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	2	$31
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	2	$27

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

$3,655 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,808 psychiatric/mental health providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$27,061

Medicare patients

Services billed

517

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
Aripiprazole	25	$1,988
Olanzapine	16	$1,334
Quetiapine Fumarate	41	$333
Divalproex Sodium	13	$302
Hydroxyzine Hcl	23	$300
Escitalopram Oxalate	23	$263
Trazodone Hcl	46	$195
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	18	$190
Buspirone Hcl	21	$146
Mirtazapine	27	$146
Risperidone	26	$118
Sertraline Hcl	25	$85
Clonazepam	19	$84
Fluoxetine Hcl	12	$44

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatric/mental health in Columbus

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Alicja MatusiakColumbus$11K
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Gregory BlankenshipColumbus$10K
Jennifer WilsonColumbus$10K
Crystal TravisJackson$333K
Kristina RoweIronton$253K
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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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