Mark Hessenthaler
Psychiatry · Fort Gordon, GANPI 1487776506
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,617 of the $4,547 with a category attached, or 79.6%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Neuronetics, Inc. at 35.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,100 and has fallen 74.9% since, to $528 in 2025.
Across 145 payments — averaging $31.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Neuronetics, Inc.$2K
- AbbVie$447
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$301
- Lundbeck LLC$259
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$245
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$244
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$93020%
- Food & beverage$3,61780%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Neuronetics, Inc. | 2 | $1,594 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 27 | $447 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 14 | $301 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 12 | $259 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 11 | $245 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $244 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 9 | $213 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $181 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $154 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 6 | $133 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 7 | $131 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 5 | $116 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $104 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $103 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 5 | $88 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $78 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $54 |
| Corium, LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $23 |
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
$4,547 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 900 psychiatry providers in Georgia.
Other psychiatry in Fort Gordon
- Richard PettyLoganville$2.9M
- Ann GrooverCalhoun$1.4M
- Todd AntinDecatur$1M
- Michael BanovMarietta$733K
- Ben HunterBrookhaven$499K
- Joel MorganValdosta$337K
- Munjal ShroffSmyrna$316K
- David PurselleAtlanta$307K
- Jose CangianoAthens$244K
- Michael BurkeAtlanta$217K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.