Christos Ballas, MD
Psychiatry · Philadelphia, PANPI 1629005673
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 11 payments — averaging $63.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$331
- Caldera Medical, Inc$197
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$49
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$47
- Almatica Pharma LLC$21
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$20
- plus $35 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$33147%
- Food & beverage$32346%
- Education$477%
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.
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$312
- Desara$197
How this compares
$700 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,838 psychiatry providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lurasidone Hcl | 26 | $8,122 |
| Aripiprazole | 64 | $2,480 |
| Mirtazapine | 176 | $1,928 |
| Rivastigmine | 12 | $1,548 |
| Alprazolam | 511 | $1,397 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 135 | $1,364 |
| Doxepin Hcl | 105 | $1,285 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 223 | $1,244 |
| Ziprasidone Hcl | 22 | $910 |
| Bupropion Hcl SrBupropion Hcl | 103 | $892 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 47 | $666 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 66 | $633 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl | 60 | $624 |
| Clonazepam | 185 | $577 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 132 | $510 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Almatica Pharma LLCSertraline Hcl | $21 | $1,244223 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 70th percentile of 1,838 psychiatry providers in Pennsylvania.
Other psychiatry in Philadelphia
- Steven ArnoldPhiladelphia$4.1M
- Michael ThasePhiladelphia$2.2M
- Daniel WeintraubPhiladelphia$647K
- Yvette ShelinePhiladelphia$442K
- Kyle KampmanPhiladelphia$355K
- Christian KohlerPhiladelphia$172K
- Freddy AliPhiladelphia$107K
- Stanley CaroffPhiladelphia$105K
- Richard JaffePhiladelphia$101K
- Ramesh EluriPhiladelphia$85K
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.