Craig Chepke
Psychiatry · Huntersville, NCNPI 1831363712
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $2,523,467 of the $4,070,150 with a category attached, or 62.0%. It is spread thinly across 49 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.6%. Among psychiatry clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 4,506 payments — averaging $903.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$637K
- AbbVie$583K
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$491K
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$452K
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$390K
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$377K
- plus $1.1M from 43 others
Across 36 payments — averaging $1102.82 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$17K
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$12K
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$4K
- Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$4K
- Harmony Biosciences LLC$3K
- Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$500
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,031,59025%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,523,46762%
- Travel & lodging$439,03311%
- Food & beverage$74,1922%
- Education$1,8680%
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.
- VRAYLAR$556,208
- INGREZZA$476,043
- CAPLYTA$371,927
- AUSTEDO$353,979
- Auvelity$329,586
- LYBALVI$323,533
- REXULTI$213,877
- SPRAVATO$184,166
- SUNOSI$142,814
- COBENFY$121,816
- Dayvigo$121,365
- Austedo XR$117,407
- ARISTADA$115,113
- NUPLAZID$106,639
- ABILIFY MYCITE$105,351
- UZEDY$98,019
- ABILIFY MAINTENA$89,436
- ABILIFY ASIMTUFII$69,206
- Azstarys$58,478
- TRINTELLIX$38,945
How this compares
$4,070,150 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,108 psychiatry providers in North Carolina.
Other psychiatry in Huntersville
- Mark ReynoldsDurham$3.2M
- James BarkerHickory$2.1M
- Brian FarahWinston Salem$605K
- Krishna TalluriMorrisville$591K
- Ramesh GihwalaGastonia$545K
- Keshavpal ReddyGreensboro$480K
- Robert MilletRaleigh$476K
- Steven SzaboDurham$360K
- David JoyeAlbemarle$280K
- Andrew KrystalDurham$234K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.