Has Heather Chouteau received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,622 in general payments to Heather Chouteau across 80 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 Heather Chouteau 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 Heather Chouteau 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.

Heather Chouteau

Psychiatry · Crestview Hills, KYNPI 1093240111

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 80 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $603, 5.4 times the $112 reported in 2019.

$1,622in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 80 payments — averaging $20.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alkermes, Inc.$235
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$206
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$176
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$127
Lundbeck LLC$125
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$115
plus $638 from 14 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,622100%

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
Alkermes, Inc.	9	$235
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	6	$206
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	9	$176
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	8	$127
Lundbeck LLC	6	$125
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	6	$115
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	6	$111
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	6	$87
Corium, LLC	5	$78
Almatica Pharma LLC	2	$48
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$44
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$43
Johnson & Johnson	2	$41
AbbVie	2	$40
Tris Pharma Inc	2	$32
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$32
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.	1	$25
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$22
Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$21
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$14

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.

INGREZZA$112

How this compares

$1,622 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 348 psychiatry providers in Kentucky.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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