Has Carol Winkler received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,881 in general payments to Carol Winkler across 29 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 Carol Winkler 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 Carol Winkler 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.

Carol Winkler

Psychiatric/Mental Health · Buffalo, NYNPI 1467598276

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,881in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $64.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alkermes, Inc.$518
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$224
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$184
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$139
Corium, LLC$131
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$125
plus $559 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,82597%
Education$553%

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
Alkermes, Inc.	5	$518
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	3	$224
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	4	$184
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$139
Corium, LLC	7	$131
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	1	$125
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$125
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$111
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$107
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$105
Johnson & Johnson	2	$95
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$15

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.

LYBALVI$1,348
INGREZZA$125
Austedo XR$125
REXULTI$125
Fanapt$125
CAPLYTA$123
Auvelity$111

How this compares

$1,881 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,385 psychiatric/mental health providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$2,254

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
Clozapine	25	$3,536
Ziprasidone Hcl	24	$2,121
Quetiapine Fumarate	63	$1,516
Aripiprazole	33	$1,277
Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine	28	$1,060
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	62	$1,048
Clonazepam	62	$627
Olanzapine	22	$505
Diazepam	43	$489
Duloxetine Hcl	36	$425
Prazosin Hcl	21	$421
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	32	$387
Lamotrigine	57	$378
Zolpidem Tartrate	24	$249
Hydroxyzine Pamoate	18	$225

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatric/mental health in Buffalo

Carl de FrancoBuffalo$28K
Sarah OtwellBuffalo$15K
Tisha TanyiBuffalo$10K
Richard ZawislakBuffalo$10K
Glenn HannDansville$1.3M
Tammy RussoNiskayuna$568K
Carrie EdickSchenectady$484K
Eric SpronzCentereach$448K
Terry Jo Brooks-DevlinTonawanda$176K
Kevin SiewersStaten Island$155K

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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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