Has Heather Ford received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,390 in general payments to Heather Ford across 123 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 Ford 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 Ford 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 Ford

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · Carrollton, GANPI 1720369234

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.7% of the total across 123 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. at 39.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $581, more than ten times the $20 reported in 2020.

$2,390in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 123 payments — averaging $19.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$951
Corium, LLC$512
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$187
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$124
Noven Therapeutics, LLC$77
Alkermes, Inc.$76
plus $464 from 14 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,383100%
Education$70%

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
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	61	$951
Corium, LLC	14	$512
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	6	$187
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	8	$124
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	4	$77
Alkermes, Inc.	4	$76
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	4	$67
Lundbeck LLC	3	$62
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	3	$59
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$35
Eisai Inc.	2	$31
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$30
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$30
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	2	$28
Biogen	1	$28
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$22
Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$21
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$21
AbbVie	1	$16
Tempus AI, Inc	1	$15

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.

Azstarys$279

How this compares

$2,390 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 91 child & adolescent psychiatry providers in Georgia.

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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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