Gerard Sanacora
Psychiatry · New Haven, CTNPI 1992779151
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $80,474 of the $94,139 with a category attached, or 85.5%. It is spread thinly across 16 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.3%. Among psychiatry clinicians in CT 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.
Across 122 payments — averaging $771.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$20K
- Sage Therapeutics, LLC$16K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$10K
- AbbVie$8K
- Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$8K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$7K
- plus $25K from 10 others
Across 80 payments — averaging $15,292 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.
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$918K
- Merck$298K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$8K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$80,47485%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,8623%
- Travel & lodging$9,07910%
- Food & beverage$1,7242%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 32 | $20,034 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 16 | $16,331 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | 12 | $10,344 |
| AbbVie | 13 | $7,773 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 9 | $7,767 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 16 | $7,339 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 4 | $5,548 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $3,900 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $3,526 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $3,100 |
| Biogen | 2 | $3,045 |
| Eli Lilly | 2 | $2,175 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $1,800 |
| H. Lundbeck A S | 1 | $750 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | 9 | $667 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
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
$94,139 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 644 psychiatry providers in Connecticut.
Other psychiatry in New Haven
- Vladimir CoricNew Haven$133.7M
- Robert BermanNew Haven$126K
- Christopher VandyckNew Haven$70K
- Paula ZimbreanNew Haven$61K
- Brandon KitayNew Haven$59K
- Sarah FinebergNew Haven$34K
- Samuel WilkinsonNew Haven$30K
- Christopher PittengerNew Haven$19K
- Dan OrenNew Haven$17K
- Youngsun ChoNew Haven$16K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.