Cherie Simpson
Psychiatric/Mental Health, Geropsychiatric · Austin, TXNPI 1720030307
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 216 payments — averaging $23.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$860
- Lundbeck LLC$584
- Eisai Inc.$542
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$380
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$328
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$302
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,085100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 33 | $860 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 26 | $584 |
| Eisai Inc. | 15 | $542 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 18 | $380 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 16 | $328 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 9 | $302 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 13 | $280 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 12 | $277 |
| AbbVie | 20 | $276 |
| Biogen | 5 | $271 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 13 | $269 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 12 | $218 |
| Corium, LLC | 6 | $160 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $67 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 3 | $54 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Merck | 2 | $36 |
| Life Molecular Imaging Ltd | 1 | $27 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Alfasigma USA, 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.
How this compares
Too few psychiatric/mental health, geropsychiatric providers in Texasto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| RexultiBrexpiprazole | 36 | $88,370 |
| Austedo XrDeutetrabenazine | 12 | $68,090 |
| TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide | 46 | $36,744 |
| BelsomraSuvorexant | 37 | $19,881 |
| NamzaricMemantine Hcl/Donepezil Hcl | 18 | $17,670 |
| Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate | 177 | $11,370 |
| Rivastigmine | 68 | $9,149 |
| ViibrydVilazodone Hcl | 25 | $8,097 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 230 | $7,812 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 266 | $6,458 |
| DayvigoLemborexant | 15 | $6,284 |
| Aripiprazole | 176 | $6,263 |
| Memantine Hcl ErMemantine Hcl | 31 | $5,714 |
| Memantine Hcl | 144 | $4,401 |
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 257 | $4,321 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Rexulti | $380 | $88,37036 claims |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.Austedo Xr | $269 | $68,09012 claims |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix | $218 | $36,74446 claims |
| AbbVieNamzaric, Viibryd | $276 | $25,76743 claims |
| MerckBelsomra | $36 | $19,88137 claims |
| Eisai Inc.Dayvigo | $542 | $6,28415 claims |
| Almatica Pharma LLCSertraline Hcl | $22 | $4,154325 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCOlanzapine | $277 | $2,01490 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. There are too few psychiatric/mental health, geropsychiatric providers in Texason file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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.