Melissa Delbello
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1609956101
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $25,340 of the $35,878 with a category attached, or 70.6%. 4 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alkermes, Inc. at 50.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $12,193 and has fallen 73.0% since, to $3,295 in 2024. Among child & adolescent psychiatry clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 31 payments — averaging $1157.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alkermes, Inc.$18K
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$10K
- Sage Therapeutics, LLC$5K
- Merck$2K
Across 964 payments — averaging $4637.83 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.
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$1.7M
- Alkermes, Inc.$733K
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$359K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$344K
- Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$326K
- H. Lundbeck A S$284K
- plus $695K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$25,34071%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,48513%
- Travel & lodging$4,17612%
- Food & beverage$1,8765%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alkermes, Inc. | 14 | $18,260 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $10,409 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $5,348 |
| Merck | 8 | $1,862 |
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
$35,878 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 160 child & adolescent psychiatry providers in Ohio.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Lurasidone Hcl | 11 | $13,057 |
| Paliperidone ErPaliperidone | 11 | $6,964 |
| Divalproex Sodium | 13 | $510 |
| Olanzapine | 13 | $429 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other child & adolescent psychiatry in Cincinnati
- Craig EricksonCincinnati$9K
- Ethan MusgraveCincinnati$3K
- Luis Patino DuranCincinnati$1K
- Jonathan GarrisonCincinnati$1K
- Ernest PedapatiCincinnati$1K
- Joseph CresciCincinnati$911
- Hilton RodriguezCincinnati$649
- Janice SingermanCincinnati$360
- Mark JohnsonCincinnati$336
- Susan MerwinCincinnati$290
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.