Melchor Mercado
Psychiatry · Modesto, CANPI 1750374104
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 269 payments — averaging $18.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$759
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$714
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$529
- Lundbeck LLC$466
- AbbVie$461
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$435
- plus $2K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,81799%
- Education$471%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 33 | $759 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 47 | $714 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 37 | $529 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 33 | $466 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 28 | $461 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 16 | $435 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 20 | $408 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 13 | $317 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 13 | $227 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 9 | $190 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 5 | $88 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $84 |
| Corium, LLC | 5 | $81 |
| Eisai Inc. | 4 | $68 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $24 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$4,864 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 12 | $376 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 13 | $298 |
| Lithium Carbonate | 17 | $146 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 22 | $88 |
| Fluoxetine Hcl | 19 | $70 |
| Clonazepam | 11 | $33 |
| Lorazepam | 11 | $14 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other psychiatry in Modesto
- Elly LeeIrvine$49.8M
- Daniel ChuehOrange$17.9M
- Eric ChavezSan Diego$15.5M
- Lara ShirikjianTorrance$12.6M
- John DuffySanta Ana$12M
- Marina BusselPlaya Vista$12M
- Sherry SoefjeOceanside$11.9M
- Steven MacinaHuntington Beach$11.1M
- Wakelin McNeelRosemead$11M
- Donald AndersonBanning$10.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.