Has Lori Dickson received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,526 in general payments to Lori Dickson across 98 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 Lori Dickson 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 Lori Dickson 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.

Lori Dickson

Psychiatric/Mental Health · Murfreesboro, TNNPI 1770781056

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,526in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 98 payments — averaging $15.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$450
Lundbeck LLC$136
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$123
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$122
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$116
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$104
plus $475 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,526100%

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
AbbVie	42	$450
Lundbeck LLC	7	$136
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	6	$123
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	6	$122
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	6	$116
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$104
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	5	$103
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	5	$80
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	5	$80
Alkermes, Inc.	4	$74
Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$39
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	2	$37
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$31
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$16
Johnson & Johnson	1	$15

How this compares

$1,526 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,167 psychiatric/mental health providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$11,015

Medicare patients

Services billed

153

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
Lamotrigine ErLamotrigine	11	$2,188
Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate	17	$1,097
Mirtazapine	23	$475
Hydroxyzine Hcl	15	$324
Duloxetine Hcl	18	$242
Lorazepam	12	$205
Lamotrigine	21	$137
Trazodone Hcl	13	$133
Escitalopram Oxalate	16	$73
Propranolol Hcl	12	$49

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatric/mental health in Murfreesboro

Laura MelaroBolivar$682K
Fay BembryJohnson City$449K
Kristian DambrinoNashville$449K
Mary AllenMemphis$422K
Lauren HansenNashville$263K
Joshua ThompsonChattanooga$262K
Kristal HurstBlaine$260K
Kaitlynn EarlsGreeneville$228K
Tory WoodardCookeville$191K
Sarah VogelfangerMemphis$94K

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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.

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