Has Charles Coats received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,767 in general payments to Charles Coats across 91 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 Charles Coats 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 Charles Coats 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.

Charles Coats

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · Indianapolis, INNPI 1982648630

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 91 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 26 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $647 and has fallen 65.9% since, to $220 in 2025.

$1,767in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 91 payments — averaging $19.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$249
Johnson & Johnson$235
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$156
Alkermes, Inc.$140
Medtronic$124
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$111
plus $753 from 20 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,767100%

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
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	17	$249
Johnson & Johnson	8	$235
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	6	$156
Alkermes, Inc.	9	$140
Medtronic	1	$124
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	7	$111
Dexcom, Inc.	2	$92
Lundbeck LLC	5	$79
QOL Medical, LLC	6	$74
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$67
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$60
AbbVie(2 entities)	4	$48
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	2	$43
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	3	$41
Lilly USA, LLC	2	$32
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$30
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	2	$27
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$23
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$21
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc	1	$21
Shire North American Group Inc	1	$20
Neuronetics, Inc.	1	$18
Insulet Corporation	1	$16
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	1	$15
Lifescan, Inc.	1	$14
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$12

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.

MINIMED 780G$124
XARELTO$123

How this compares

$1,767 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 56 child & adolescent psychiatry providers in Indiana.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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