Cynthia Buckner
Psychiatric/Mental Health · Knoxville, TNNPI 1780004531
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 109 payments — averaging $17.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$78
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$71
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$61
- Johnson & Johnson$41
- Alkermes, Inc.$37
- plus $42 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,86098%
- Education$472%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 96 | $1,576 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 3 | $78 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $71 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $61 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $41 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 3 | $37 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $31 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,907 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,167 psychiatric/mental health providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vilazodone Hcl | 24 | $3,420 |
| Aripiprazole | 27 | $1,941 |
| Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate | 11 | $955 |
| Oxcarbazepine | 11 | $753 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 37 | $724 |
| Prazosin Hcl | 16 | $403 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 46 | $352 |
| Gabapentin | 36 | $347 |
| Hydroxyzine Hcl | 18 | $278 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 13 | $241 |
| Clonazepam | 37 | $237 |
| Mirtazapine | 21 | $210 |
| Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine | 15 | $209 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl | 27 | $208 |
| Hydroxyzine Pamoate | 14 | $199 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other psychiatric/mental health in Knoxville
- Katherine SullivanKnoxville$17K
- Melissa McCarterKnoxville$13K
- Melissa SpearsKnoxville$12K
- Sarah LordKnoxville$10K
- Chenoa ShenandoahKnoxville$10K
- Sarah BannisterKnoxville$9K
- Brittani ArrowoodKnoxville$9K
- Lori HestandKnoxville$8K
- Lindsey WondoloskiKnoxville$8K
- Justin MynattKnoxville$8K
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.