Benjamin Sparks
Psychiatric/Mental Health · St George, UTNPI 1790460269
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 27 payments — averaging $23.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$167
- Tris Pharma Inc$102
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$82
- Corium, LLC$53
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$49
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$38
- plus $148 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$637100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 7 | $167 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 3 | $102 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 3 | $82 |
| Corium, LLC | 4 | $53 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Biogen | 1 | $22 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
How this compares
$637 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 393 psychiatric/mental health providers in Utah.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine | 14 | $459 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 15 | $236 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 16 | $108 |
| Clonazepam | 13 | $83 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other psychiatric/mental health in St George
- Nicole CumminsSt George$4K
- Maryellen LangleySt George$3K
- Brooks WileySt George$3K
- Bret HafenLayton$381K
- Alberto SouzaSaint George$114K
- Anthony BrowningOrem$32K
- Debra HainRiverton$29K
- Kristin BarberSalt Lake City$28K
- Briana TerrySalt Lake City$14K
- Paige MarshallSaint George$13K
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.