RxDoctor Payments Data

Hiruy Gessesse, MD

Psychiatry · Torrance, CANPI 1902091481

Payments from drug & device makers

$147in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $21.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$135
  • Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$13

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$147100%

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

19
22

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Johnson & Johnson6$135
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.1$13

How this compares

$147 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$658,860
Medicare patients
1,113
Services billed
10,763

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
Invega SustennaPaliperidone Palmitate91$228,559
Divalproex Sodium1,077$59,217
Quetiapine Fumarate1,073$41,560
Risperidone1,106$30,017
Olanzapine593$22,301
Olanzapine OdtOlanzapine160$20,313
Chlorpromazine Hcl35$14,716
Divalproex Sodium ErDivalproex Sodium195$14,579
Aripiprazole230$12,337
Mirtazapine343$11,754
Clozapine OdtClozapine26$11,191
Lurasidone Hcl54$8,921
Clozapine112$8,518
Haloperidol189$8,053
Valproic AcidValproic Acid (As Sodium Salt)135$7,181

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
Johnson & JohnsonInvega Sustenna$135$228,55991 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 45th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.

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