RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Burke, MD

Psychiatry · Atlanta, GANPI 1376649962

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $187,830 of the $216,590 with a category attached, or 86.7%. Alkermes, Inc. accounts for 99.9% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $96,591 and has fallen 82.2% since, to $17,152 in 2024. Among psychiatry clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$216,590in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 220 payments — averaging $984.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alkermes, Inc.$216K
  • Theragen, Inc.$127
  • Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$35
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$17
$111,396in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $7426.41 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • AbbVie$111K
  • Alkermes, Inc.$170

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$6,8003%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$187,83087%
  • Travel & lodging$17,2138%
  • Food & beverage$4,7472%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Alkermes, Inc.217$216,410
Theragen, Inc.1$127
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.1$35
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.1$17

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

$216,590 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 900 psychiatry providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$76,173
Medicare patients
72
Services billed
973

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
Paliperidone ErPaliperidone13$889
Divalproex Sodium ErDivalproex Sodium12$595
Aripiprazole27$558
Olanzapine34$549
Ziprasidone Hcl12$378
Haloperidol16$350
Quetiapine Fumarate32$296
Buspirone Hcl25$282
Hydroxyzine Pamoate22$232
Duloxetine Hcl18$221
Benztropine Mesylate24$198
Gabapentin14$170
Mirtazapine20$160
Fluoxetine Hcl30$143
Prazosin Hcl17$113

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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