Melissa Ott
Psychiatric/Mental Health · Nashville, TNNPI 1396873063
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 203 payments — averaging $21.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$675
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$427
- Corium, LLC$413
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$375
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$287
- Alkermes, Inc.$274
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,322100%
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 | 30 | $675 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 18 | $427 |
| Corium, LLC | 19 | $413 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 16 | $375 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 18 | $287 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 14 | $274 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 13 | $272 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $250 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $240 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 8 | $192 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 7 | $153 |
| Eisai Inc. | 6 | $141 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 6 | $103 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $82 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $76 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $76 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Amgen | 2 | $37 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| OWP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- SUNOSI$105
How this compares
$4,322 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,167 psychiatric/mental health providers in Tennessee.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Lurasidone Hcl | 32 | $11,746 |
| NuedextaDextromethorphan Hbr/Quinidine | 12 | $9,021 |
| Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate | 49 | $2,831 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 55 | $2,601 |
| Dextroamphetamine-Amphet ErDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine | 30 | $1,745 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 56 | $932 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 46 | $664 |
| Lamotrigine | 52 | $490 |
| Vilazodone Hcl | 13 | $486 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 84 | $468 |
| Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine | 15 | $461 |
| Eszopiclone | 13 | $382 |
| Ziprasidone Hcl | 13 | $369 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 19 | $357 |
| Bupropion Hcl SrBupropion Hcl | 19 | $298 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other psychiatric/mental health in Nashville
- Kristian DambrinoNashville$449K
- Lauren HansenNashville$263K
- Aaron JonesNashville$20K
- Kathleen McCoyNashville$12K
- Preeti SrivastavaNashville$11K
- Kersten WoodleeNashville$10K
- Ariel NewtonNashville$10K
- Robert McKeownNashville$10K
- Debra YorkNashville$9K
- Laura MelaroBolivar$682K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.