Christopher Tikum
Psychiatric/Mental Health · East Orange, NJNPI 1578269056
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 306 payments — averaging $16.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alkermes, Inc.$1K
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$1K
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$726
- AbbVie$539
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$461
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$218
- plus $730 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,033100%
- Education$110%
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. | 67 | $1,314 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 64 | $1,057 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 56 | $726 |
| AbbVie | 39 | $539 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 20 | $461 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 12 | $218 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 10 | $177 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 15 | $162 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $155 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $76 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Merck | 1 | $17 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- ARISTADA$431
- CAPLYTA$125
- ARISTADA INITIO$108
- UZEDY$105
How this compares
$5,044 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,212 psychiatric/mental health providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| IngrezzaValbenazine Tosylate | 12 | $115,632 |
| Invega SustennaPaliperidone Palmitate | 17 | $70,274 |
| Abilify MaintenaAripiprazole | 26 | $65,409 |
| LybalviOlanzapine/Samidorphan Malate | 36 | $54,298 |
| VraylarCariprazine Hcl | 21 | $29,820 |
| RexultiBrexpiprazole | 12 | $20,423 |
| CaplytaLumateperone Tosylate | 12 | $20,050 |
| AuvelityDextromethorphan Hbr/Bupropion | 11 | $11,551 |
| Aripiprazole | 201 | $9,786 |
| BelsomraSuvorexant | 12 | $5,447 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl | 150 | $4,323 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 264 | $2,473 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 289 | $2,300 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 204 | $2,246 |
| Ziprasidone Hcl | 30 | $2,083 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.Ingrezza | $726 | $115,63212 claims |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Abilify Maintena, Rexulti | $218 | $85,83238 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonInvega Sustenna | $155 | $70,27417 claims |
| Alkermes, Inc.Lybalvi | $1,314 | $54,29836 claims |
| AbbVieVraylar | $539 | $29,82021 claims |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)Caplyta | $1,057 | $20,05012 claims |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.Auvelity | $32 | $11,55111 claims |
| MerckBelsomra | $17 | $5,44712 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. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 1,212 psychiatric/mental health providers in New Jersey.
Other psychiatric/mental health in East Orange
- Ubong UdofiaMarlton$407K
- Anthony DimuraRed Bank$130K
- Amy PinsenNewton$111K
- Aaron SpectorMarlton$100K
- Fiorella ParadisiSparta$84K
- Diane BurtBridgeton$81K
- Alta ManessHackensack$75K
- Laura LeahySewell$41K
- Linda WinfulMontclair$40K
- Marisa SavicOradel$38K
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.