Has Kevin Simmons received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,464 in general payments to Kevin Simmons across 162 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 Kevin Simmons 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 Kevin Simmons 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.

Kevin Simmons

Psychiatry · Sugar Land, TXNPI 1255479887

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 162 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson at 41.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,327 and has fallen 73.6% since, to $351 in 2025.

$3,464in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 162 payments — averaging $21.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$1K
Neos Therapeutics, LP$221
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$203
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$192
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$175
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$171
plus $1K from 13 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$3,464100%

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
Johnson & Johnson	61	$1,437
Neos Therapeutics, LP	18	$221
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	11	$203
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	4	$192
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	11	$175
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	5	$171
Alkermes, Inc.	3	$154
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	9	$154
Shire North American Group Inc	7	$149
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	7	$117
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$94
Adlon Therapeutics L.p.	4	$94
Bausch Health US, LLC	4	$84
Tris Pharma Inc	3	$62
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$60
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$34
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	2	$30
Corium, LLC	1	$18
Axsome Therapeutics, 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.

How this compares

$3,464 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,238 psychiatry providers in Texas.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Duloxetine Hcl	17	$483
Quetiapine Fumarate	17	$272
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	13	$192
Lamotrigine	12	$174
Escitalopram Oxalate	14	$136
Buspirone Hcl	13	$118

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Martin GuerreroEl Paso$2M
Marty BennettAddison$1.8M
Matthew BramsHouston$1.5M
Vikram MehraKaty$1.2M
Joel HolinerDallas$948K
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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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