Has Heather Cypher received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,178 in general payments to Heather Cypher across 363 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 Cypher 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 Cypher 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 Cypher

Psychiatric/Mental Health · Hamilton, OHNPI 1033835772

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,178in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 363 payments — averaging $19.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$1K
AbbVie$1K
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$723
Johnson & Johnson$659
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$445
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$371
plus $2K from 14 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$7,163100%
Education$150%

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
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	35	$1,449
AbbVie	86	$1,360
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	33	$723
Johnson & Johnson	27	$659
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	35	$445
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	19	$371
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	11	$358
Alkermes, Inc.	33	$342
Lundbeck LLC	23	$330
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	19	$303
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	12	$262
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	6	$178
Almatica Pharma LLC	6	$135
Corium, LLC	7	$84
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$50
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	3	$46
Lilly USA, LLC	2	$34
Novo Nordisk	1	$19
Tris Pharma Inc	1	$14
Sage Therapeutics, LLC	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.

How this compares

$7,178 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,808 psychiatric/mental health providers in Ohio.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl	12	$1,283
Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate	14	$729
Lorazepam	11	$36

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatric/mental health in Hamilton

Crystal TravisJackson$333K
Kristina RoweIronton$253K
Patricia SparksPortsmouth$210K
Mary HallWarren$195K
Kassandra KornbauCanfield$170K
Terri PopovitzCincinnati$161K
Steven MatesDayton$121K
Robert ParsonsYoungstown$119K
Chriscia BaneChillicothe$115K
Rachael McLaughlinMaple Heights$114K

See the full list for Ohio →

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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