Kurian Abraham, MD
Geriatric Psychiatry · Charlotte, NCNPI 1891754297
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,039 payments — averaging $5423.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1.6M
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$1.2M
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$689K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$554K
- Sage Therapeutics, LLC$410K
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$370K
- plus $792K from 25 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $95.40 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$286
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2003%
- Food & beverage$6,90394%
- Education$2483%
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.
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
Too few geriatric psychiatry providers in North Carolinato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| AustedoDeutetrabenazine | 28 | $331,110 |
| Austedo XrDeutetrabenazine | 26 | $158,796 |
| Abilify MaintenaAripiprazole | 35 | $99,296 |
| VraylarCariprazine Hcl | 56 | $96,480 |
| AuvelityDextromethorphan Hbr/Bupropion | 40 | $43,428 |
| Invega SustennaPaliperidone Palmitate | 14 | $39,222 |
| NuedextaDextromethorphan Hbr/Quinidine | 15 | $25,991 |
| CaplytaLumateperone Tosylate | 13 | $25,148 |
| TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide | 24 | $15,516 |
| BelsomraSuvorexant | 31 | $14,220 |
| SpravatoEsketamine Hcl | 13 | $14,106 |
| Paliperidone ErPaliperidone | 25 | $6,967 |
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 12 | $2,221 |
| Memantine Hcl | 38 | $1,787 |
| Prazosin Hcl | 61 | $1,674 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.Austedo, Austedo Xr | $1,198,990 | $489,90654 claims |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Abilify Maintena | $1,204 | $99,29635 claims |
| AbbVieVraylar | $1,621,731 | $96,48056 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonInvega Sustenna, Spravato | $413 | $53,32827 claims |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.Auvelity | $575 | $43,42840 claims |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Nuedexta | $44,011 | $25,99115 claims |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)Caplyta | $214,135 | $25,14813 claims |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix | $87 | $15,51624 claims |
| Almatica Pharma LLCSertraline Hcl | $38 | $13627 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. There are too few geriatric psychiatry providers in North Carolinaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other geriatric psychiatry in Charlotte
- Rasheed OnafuyeMonroe$3.2M
- Robert WilliamsDurham$36K
- Christopher McKinleyLeland$9K
- Michael LangGreenville$2K
- Matthew KernWinston Salem$367
- Aaron BrodskyHendersonville$266
- Rhonda StahlRaleigh$165
- Tracey HolsingerDurham$100
- Jill HeathAsheville$77
- Mary LunsfordChapel Hill$0
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.