Charles Chester, MD
Psychiatry · Metairie, LANPI 1316953227
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 698 payments — averaging $20.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$3K
- AbbVie$2K
- Lundbeck LLC$1K
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$948
- plus $5K from 27 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 53 | $2,915 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 112 | $1,623 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 75 | $1,252 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 55 | $1,170 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 59 | $1,092 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 59 | $948 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 44 | $867 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 33 | $641 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 22 | $417 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 25 | $410 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 17 | $342 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 13 | $298 |
| Corium, LLC | 14 | $267 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 9 | $233 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 13 | $213 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 10 | $209 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 8 | $205 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $194 |
| Indivior Inc. | 10 | $158 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 9 | $152 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 9 | $152 |
| Merck | 8 | $125 |
| Eisai Inc. | 8 | $124 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 5 | $94 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 5 | $93 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $71 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 3 | $38 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Neuronetics, Inc. | 2 | $20 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Brainsway USA Inc | 1 | $10 |
How this compares
$14,442 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 474 psychiatry providers in Louisiana.
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.
Other psychiatry in Metairie
- Teri SchwarzMetairie$13K
- Julie CeasarMetairie$12K
- Kenneth SumnerMetairie$12K
- Jonathon RynningMetairie$11K
- Sidney SmithMetairie$10K
- Jose RodriguezMetairie$9K
- Kashinath YadalamLake Charles$3.8M
- Guy BrannonShreveport$1.4M
- Patrick HayesLake Charles$853K
- Maria CruseThibodaux$522K
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.