Brad Burns
Psychiatric/Mental Health · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1437783545
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 111 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 16 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,190, more than ten times the $41 reported in 2022.
Across 111 payments — averaging $27.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Viiv Healthcare Company$726
- Alkermes, Inc.$618
- AbbVie$500
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$298
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$260
- Johnson & Johnson$154
- plus $481 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,037100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 21 | $726 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 16 | $618 |
| AbbVie | 27 | $500 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 5 | $298 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 13 | $260 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $154 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 7 | $146 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $128 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Gilead | 2 | $34 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $20 |
| Merck | 1 | $19 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Halozyme Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Theratechnologies Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$3,037 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,041 psychiatric/mental health providers in Pennsylvania.
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Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 33 | $559 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other psychiatric/mental health in Pittsburgh
- Britney KeplerPittsburgh$158K
- Amanda CieszynskiPittsburgh$8K
- Ashley WoodPittsburgh$7K
- Kimberly GarciaAllentown$573K
- Cortney SmithWashington$227K
- Kirstyn KamegBethel Park$136K
- Anna DipietroDowningtown$131K
- Deena MasciocchiLanghorne$71K
- Joseph GagnonChesterbrook$64K
- Michelle CohenWashington$62K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.