RxDoctor Payments Data

Melodee Thacker, APRN

Psychiatry · Ashland, KYNPI 1912350513

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,022in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 131 payments — averaging $15.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$876
  • Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$388
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$188
  • Braeburn Inc.$146
  • Indivior Inc.$69
  • Alkermes, Inc.$56
  • plus $299 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,022100%

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

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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.

How this compares

$2,022 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 348 psychiatry providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$11,706
Medicare patients
13
Services billed
114

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
VraylarCariprazine Hcl72$100,460
Aripiprazole78$5,119
Paliperidone ErPaliperidone29$3,585
Divalproex Sodium ErDivalproex Sodium22$1,921
Clonazepam183$1,778
Clonidine Hcl ErClonidine Hcl13$1,563
Methylphenidate ErMethylphenidate Hcl12$1,465
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl96$1,311
Buspirone Hcl90$902
Doxepin Hcl29$901
Duloxetine Hcl56$827
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl64$799
Oxcarbazepine30$762
Quetiapine Fumarate58$737
Hydroxyzine Hcl27$732

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AbbVieVraylar$876$100,46072 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 348 psychiatry providers in Kentucky.

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