Melvin James, APRN
Psychiatric/Mental Health · Jacksonville, NCNPI 1912217712
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 991 payments — averaging $14.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$2K
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$2K
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$1K
- Alkermes, Inc.$1K
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$1K
- plus $5K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$14,13899%
- Education$1801%
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 | 132 | $1,801 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 117 | $1,676 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 69 | $1,552 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 168 | $1,429 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 86 | $1,272 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 79 | $1,243 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 43 | $906 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 34 | $623 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 37 | $555 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 30 | $497 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 28 | $492 |
| Corium, LLC | 44 | $430 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 20 | $413 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 31 | $383 |
| Merck | 14 | $257 |
| Eisai Inc. | 20 | $244 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 11 | $112 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $108 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 6 | $96 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 6 | $84 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 2 | $31 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $17 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$14,318 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 947 psychiatric/mental health providers in North Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| IngrezzaValbenazine Tosylate | 33 | $263,199 |
| CaplytaLumateperone Tosylate | 89 | $157,750 |
| RexultiBrexpiprazole | 90 | $129,289 |
| TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide | 84 | $48,799 |
| LybalviOlanzapine/Samidorphan Malate | 26 | $43,861 |
| BelsomraSuvorexant | 79 | $34,225 |
| VraylarCariprazine Hcl | 22 | $29,873 |
| FanaptIloperidone | 12 | $26,085 |
| LatudaLurasidone Hcl | 14 | $25,679 |
| Fluphenazine Hcl | 25 | $11,632 |
| QuviviqDaridorexant Hcl | 20 | $10,477 |
| Asenapine Maleate | 47 | $10,205 |
| Paliperidone ErPaliperidone | 50 | $7,496 |
| Aripiprazole | 218 | $6,609 |
| Oxcarbazepine | 86 | $5,546 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.Ingrezza | $413 | $263,19933 claims |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)Caplyta | $1,552 | $157,75089 claims |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Rexulti | $1,676 | $129,28990 claims |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix | $383 | $48,79984 claims |
| Alkermes, Inc.Lybalvi | $1,272 | $43,86126 claims |
| MerckBelsomra | $257 | $34,22579 claims |
| AbbVieVraylar | $1,801 | $29,87322 claims |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.Fanapt | $1,243 | $26,08512 claims |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.Latuda | $112 | $25,67914 claims |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US IncQuviviq | $13 | $10,47720 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 95th percentile of 947 psychiatric/mental health providers in North Carolina.
Other psychiatric/mental health in Jacksonville
- Pamela EdwardsJacksonville$16K
- Nicole DunniganJacksonville$8K
- Ashleigh BrownJacksonville$7K
- Desiree MatthewsCharlotte$807K
- Benedetto PalomboCharlotte$671K
- Clarence RunnelsCreedmoor$339K
- Lisa SuddrethGastonia$111K
- April NandigamGreensboro$88K
- Hannah NealeyFuquay Varina$75K
- Jessica StoneRocky Mount$63K
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.