RxDoctor Payments Data

Franco Song Seo, MD

Psychiatry · Bakersfield, CANPI 1609027788

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,451in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 259 payments — averaging $17.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$853
  • Neuronetics, Inc.$502
  • Lundbeck LLC$455
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$392
  • Alkermes, Inc.$340
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$311
  • plus $2K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,451100%

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.

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.

How this compares

$4,451 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$26,731
Medicare patients
103
Services billed
282

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
Quetiapine Fumarate ErQuetiapine Fumarate49$12,887
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl73$1,606
Quetiapine Fumarate174$1,486
Gabapentin121$1,411
Vilazodone Hcl12$1,353
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl85$1,197
Buspirone Hcl94$896
Olanzapine31$692
Sertraline Hcl113$676
Oxcarbazepine14$670
Divalproex Sodium ErDivalproex Sodium36$657
Lurasidone Hcl13$654
Aripiprazole45$637
Escitalopram Oxalate114$628
Fluoxetine Hcl42$384

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
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLCTopiramate$40$10525 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 85th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.

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