Has Melissa Brown received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,587 in general payments to Melissa Brown across 202 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 Melissa Brown 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 Melissa Brown 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.

Melissa Brown

Psychiatric/Mental Health · Sulphur, LANPI 1346923596

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,587in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 202 payments — averaging $22.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$999
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$579
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$473
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$433
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$373
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$372
plus $1K from 17 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$4,575100%
Education$120%

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	50	$999
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	24	$579
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	16	$473
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	12	$433
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	19	$373
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	13	$372
Alkermes, Inc.	22	$280
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	13	$182
Corium, LLC	8	$144
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$125
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$111
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	4	$83
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	1	$76
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	4	$75
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	4	$75
Sage Therapeutics, LLC	2	$44
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$42
Indivior Inc.	1	$24
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	1	$23
Johnson & Johnson	1	$22
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$20
Convatec Inc.	1	$20
Novo Nordisk	1	$13

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

$4,587 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 615 psychiatric/mental health providers in Louisiana.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Quetiapine Fumarate	53	$701
Buspirone Hcl	33	$549
Mirtazapine	29	$539
Duloxetine Hcl	33	$413
Alprazolam	27	$386
Gabapentin	36	$252
Aripiprazole	15	$225
Trazodone Hcl	34	$187
Prazosin Hcl	19	$169
Hydroxyzine Pamoate	16	$151
Lorazepam	24	$138
Sertraline Hcl	22	$121
Escitalopram Oxalate	13	$93
Lamotrigine	11	$91
Clonazepam	28	$86

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatric/mental health in Sulphur

Amy LacoutureBaton Rouge$663K
Amanda EymardHouma$617K
Amber LittlefieldBroussard$225K
Timothy PellegrinHouma$210K
Melissa GuilbeauLafayette$122K
Kimberly ForcinelShreveport$92K
Sattaria DilksLake Charles$57K
Joe TaylorHammond$38K
Lecy AlbaradoScott$34K
Michelle DyerLake Charles$33K

See the full list for Louisiana →

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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