Melissa Kalensky
Psychiatric/Mental Health · Chicago, ILNPI 1154681591
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.8% of the total across 210 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,529, more than ten times the $129 reported in 2021. Among psychiatric/mental health clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 210 payments — averaging $20.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$699
- AbbVie$684
- Lundbeck LLC$406
- Johnson & Johnson$305
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$305
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$300
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,18499%
- Education$501%
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.
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
$4,235 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 922 psychiatric/mental health providers in Illinois.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Lurasidone Hcl | 13 | $1,343 |
| Alprazolam | 52 | $821 |
| Olanzapine | 14 | $816 |
| Mirtazapine | 48 | $724 |
| Gabapentin | 22 | $646 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 34 | $519 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 25 | $433 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 12 | $290 |
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 25 | $245 |
| Lorazepam | 38 | $221 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 12 | $172 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 22 | $65 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 14 | $61 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other psychiatric/mental health in Chicago
- Erin PetrusicChicago$517K
- Maurice BrownleeChicago$151K
- Melissa VitaleChicago$151K
- Alan AmbergChicago$119K
- Julie CarbrayChicago$36K
- Abigail HamiltonChicago$14K
- Anh NguyenChicago$9K
- Sherann IvyChicago$8K
- Annabella Vidal-RuizChicago$8K
- Dina Pierre-GrayChicago$7K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.