Elia Acevedo Diaz
Psychiatry · Gaithersburg, MDNPI 1750720553
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $426 of the $482 with a category attached, or 88.4%. Modernatx, Inc. accounts for 75.1% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2024 is the largest year on record at $362, 5.4 times the $67 reported in 2021.
Across 10 payments — averaging $48.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Modernatx, Inc.$362
- Merck$106
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$14
Across 1,693 payments — averaging $9336.03 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.
- Modernatx, Inc.$4M
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$2.1M
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$2.1M
- AbbVie$1.5M
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$1.4M
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$1.3M
- plus $3.4M from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5612%
- Food & beverage$42688%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Modernatx, Inc. | 6 | $362 |
| Merck | 3 | $106 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$482 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 851 psychiatry providers in Maryland.
Other psychiatry in Gaithersburg
- Cynthia Turner GrahamGaithersburg$32K
- Mark SmithGaithersburg$9K
- John VaethBaltimore$2.1M
- Scott AaronsonBaltimore$334K
- Jamal FawazHagerstown$321K
- Thomas LaughrenRockville$283K
- Adam RothAnnapolis$210K
- Robert LehmanBaltimore$140K
- Karen AndersonBaltimore$117K
- Orlando DavisBaltimore$104K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.