Melissa Hickman
Psychiatric/Mental Health · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1518920107
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 295 payments — averaging $20.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
- Corium, LLC$2K
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$720
- Tris Pharma Inc$406
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$357
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$312
- plus $673 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,125100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 58 | $1,856 |
| Corium, LLC | 78 | $1,801 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 71 | $720 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 25 | $406 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 14 | $357 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 14 | $312 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 7 | $176 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 7 | $129 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $102 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $64 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $36 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $32 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $17 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 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.
- QELBREE$512
- Azstarys$125
- ABILIFY ASIMTUFII$122
- ABILIFY MAINTENA$122
- JORNAY PM$109
How this compares
$6,125 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,167 psychiatric/mental health providers in Tennessee.
Other psychiatric/mental health in Chattanooga
- Joshua ThompsonChattanooga$262K
- Jason HamrickChattanooga$17K
- Tina FoxChattanooga$14K
- Trena LawsonChattanooga$13K
- Erin LawsonChattanooga$10K
- Laura MelaroBolivar$682K
- Fay BembryJohnson City$449K
- Kristian DambrinoNashville$449K
- Mary AllenMemphis$422K
- Lauren HansenNashville$263K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.