Has Erin Amato, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $87,925 in general payments to Erin Amato, MD across 124 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Erin Amato, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Erin Amato, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Erin Amato, MD

Psychiatry · Billings, MTNPI 1447425178

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $77,420 of the $87,925 with a category attached, or 88.1%. Johnson & Johnson accounts for 99.8% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among psychiatry clinicians in MT 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.

$87,925in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 124 payments — averaging $709.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$88K
AbbVie$59
Novo Nordisk$32
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$32
Alkermes, Inc.$23
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$21
plus $34 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$77,42088%
Travel & lodging$7,8529%
Food & beverage$2,6533%

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
Johnson & Johnson	112	$87,723
AbbVie	3	$59
Novo Nordisk	2	$32
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	2	$32
Alkermes, Inc.	2	$23
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$21
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$18
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	1	$16

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.

SPRAVATO$85,933

How this compares

$87,925 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 82 psychiatry providers in Montana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$66,150

Medicare patients

Services billed

655

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
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	84	$1,775
Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate	21	$1,072
Vilazodone Hcl	22	$831
Olanzapine	18	$621
Prazosin Hcl	13	$435
Lurasidone Hcl	16	$396
Duloxetine Hcl	12	$377
Quetiapine Fumarate	20	$342
Gabapentin	13	$295
Trazodone Hcl	41	$280
Mirtazapine	17	$200
Sertraline Hcl	12	$183
Lorazepam	15	$54
Clonazepam	14	$39

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatry in Billings

Troy StilesBillings$221K
Reza Hosseini GhomiBillings$6K
Justin KunzBillings$4K
Svetlana YakovBillings$2K
Faraz MasoodBillings$1K
Eric ArzubiBillings$353
Deborah MaltersBillings$284
Katherine WeaverBillings$168
Mariela Herrera RojasBillings$98
Todd WojtanowiczBillings$86

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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.

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