RxDoctor Payments Data

Emily Ackerman, MD

Psychiatry · Ventura, CANPI 1861887945

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,041in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 88 payments — averaging $23.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$383
  • Johnson & Johnson$323
  • AbbVie$261
  • Alkermes, Inc.$187
  • Viiv Healthcare Company$187
  • Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$183
  • plus $516 from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,041100%

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

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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.

How this compares

$2,041 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$20,605
Medicare patients
37
Services billed
174

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Lurasidone Hcl12$8,519
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl35$2,117
Duloxetine Hcl26$1,058
Prazosin Hcl17$362
Aripiprazole24$357
Divalproex Sodium18$237
Olanzapine22$231
Escitalopram Oxalate23$149
Trazodone Hcl12$143
Quetiapine Fumarate47$140
Buspirone Hcl14$128
Sertraline Hcl15$58
Clonazepam14$43

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Almatica Pharma LLCSertraline Hcl$27$5815 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 80th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.

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