Has Benjamin Stephens, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $624 in general payments to Benjamin Stephens, MD across 32 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 Benjamin Stephens, MD 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 Benjamin Stephens, MD 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.

Benjamin Stephens, MD

Psychiatry · Charlottesville, VANPI 1568993582

Payments from drug & device makers

$624in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $19.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$115
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$113
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$73
Lundbeck LLC$49
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$47
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$41
plus $186 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$624100%

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
AbbVie	7	$115
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	5	$113
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$73
Lundbeck LLC	2	$49
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$47
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$41
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$39
Alkermes, Inc.	2	$33
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$23
Johnson & Johnson	1	$21
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$20
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	1	$19
TMS Neurohealth Centers Inc.	1	$18
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	1	$14

How this compares

$624 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 884 psychiatry providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$70,618

Medicare patients

Services billed

980

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
Lurasidone Hcl	14	$2,905
Quetiapine Fumarate	33	$1,732
Vilazodone Hcl	15	$1,331
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	37	$946
Aripiprazole	27	$837
Mirtazapine	23	$817
Clozapine	12	$794
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	41	$778
Buspirone Hcl	28	$709
Duloxetine Hcl	38	$525
Lamotrigine	32	$426
Lithium Carbonate ErLithium Carbonate	25	$425
Gabapentin	45	$363
Methylphenidate Hcl	13	$328
Clonazepam	76	$297

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatry in Charlottesville

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Randolph CanterburyCharlottesville$90K
Anne StewartCharlottesville$67K
Jennifer PayneCharlottesville$43K
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David ScheidererRoanoke$2.4M
Kent McDanielGlen Allen$2.1M
Jasdeep MiglaniManassas$958K
Frederick MoellerRichmond$678K
David SpiegelNorfolk$565K

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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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