Has Karah Brashier received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $566,906 in general payments to Karah Brashier across 1,709 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 Karah Brashier 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 Karah Brashier 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.

Karah Brashier

Psychiatric/Mental Health · Richardson, TXNPI 1497096101

Payments from drug & device makers

$566,906in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,709 payments — averaging $331.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$282K
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$135K
Johnson & Johnson$105K
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$25K
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$6K
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$3K
plus $10K from 28 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$29,0605%
Speaking & faculty fees$434,26577%
Travel & lodging$74,37513%
Food & beverage$29,0975%
Education$1080%

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
AbbVie(2 entities)	598	$282,038
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	230	$135,398
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	192	$105,187
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	109	$25,251
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	90	$6,262
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	83	$2,998
Alkermes, Inc.	55	$1,757
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	17	$1,090
Tris Pharma Inc	53	$1,003
Corium, LLC	36	$835
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.	8	$705
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	13	$556
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	20	$547
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	17	$517
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	35	$510
Lundbeck LLC	38	$472
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	34	$332
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	25	$315
Eisai Inc.	8	$167
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	7	$121
AstraZeneca	1	$120
Bausch Health US, LLC	7	$117
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	5	$97
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	1	$82
Neos Therapeutics, LP	4	$70
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	5	$69
Merck	4	$59
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$55
Adlon Therapeutics L.p.	3	$37
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$35
Almatica Pharma LLC	2	$33
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$29
Indivior Inc.	2	$27
Sage Therapeutics, LLC	1	$16

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.

VRAYLAR$270,990
Auvelity$132,246
SPRAVATO$102,184
CAPLYTA$23,812
JORNAY PM$5,067
REXULTI$2,067
LYBALVI$1,408
ARISTADA$882
COBENFY$681
INGREZZA$384
INVEGA SUSTENNA$290
INVEGA TRINZA$264
QELBREE$246
AUSTEDO$221
Quillivant$125
Dyanavel XR$125
Quillichew ER$125
FARXIGA$120
Dayvigo$116
Azstarys$115

How this compares

$566,906 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,724 psychiatric/mental health providers in Texas.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Fluoxetine Hcl	14	$124
Zolpidem Tartrate	12	$6

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatric/mental health in Richardson

Grant DavisRichardson$360K
Tracy HicksLongview$684K
Natalie TellezHouston$602K
Victor IlogEl Paso$167K
Lisa ShamblinGrapevine$163K
Monique GonzalezSan Antonio$126K
Marguerite AddisonWaco$118K
Komi Kokou-AbiRound Rock$88K
Jaime Nelson DensonAustin$88K
Tamekia ScaggsFort Worth$80K

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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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