Has Brent Forester, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $33,640 in general payments to Brent Forester, MD across 20 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 Brent Forester, 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 Brent Forester, 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.

Brent Forester, MD

Geriatric Psychiatry · Westford, MANPI 1649239716

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $32,672 of the $33,640 with a category attached, or 97.1%. 4 manufacturers reported payments, led by Biogen at 46.4% of the total. Among geriatric psychiatry clinicians in MA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$33,640in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $1682.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Biogen$16K
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$10K
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$8K
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$25

$2,171,434in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 69 payments — averaging $31,470 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Biogen$1.5M
Eisai Inc.$340K
Eli Lilly$270K
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$27K
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$236

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$32,67297%
Travel & lodging$6752%
Food & beverage$2701%
Education$250%

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
Biogen	13	$15,594
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	4	$9,890
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$8,131
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.	1	$25

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

$33,640 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 23 geriatric psychiatry providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$6,877

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Olanzapine	48	$284
Sertraline Hcl	46	$259
Donepezil Hcl	26	$249
Mirtazapine	16	$230
Quetiapine Fumarate	26	$185
Trazodone Hcl	14	$114

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other geriatric psychiatry in Westford

Feyza MaroufBoston$10K
Bruce GoldbergDanvers$6K
Olga GaftanyukShrewsbury$2K
Hon HoLynn$2K
Patricia WalshLynn$2K
Max BaranovskyBrighton$1K
James EllisonOsterville$1K
Robert PortneyAndover$887
Alfredo ChanHanover$709
Ping CuiHaverhill$667

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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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