Michael Polo, MD
Psychiatry · Santa Barbara, CANPI 1942347257
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 497 payments — averaging $18.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$843
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$801
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$711
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$632
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$631
- plus $3K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$9,11397%
- Education$3273%
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(2 entities) | 191 | $2,373 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 24 | $843 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 29 | $801 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 36 | $711 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 17 | $632 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 44 | $631 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 21 | $561 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 25 | $415 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 14 | $394 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 13 | $346 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $266 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 13 | $262 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 19 | $242 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $184 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 7 | $140 |
| Brainsway USA Inc | 1 | $136 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 4 | $95 |
| Merck | 4 | $83 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Neuronetics, Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Vertex | 1 | $28 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $21 |
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
$9,440 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.
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 | 39 | $313,180 |
| NuplazidPimavanserin Tartrate | 14 | $65,335 |
| RexultiBrexpiprazole | 18 | $33,369 |
| TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide | 28 | $26,623 |
| Lurasidone Hcl | 59 | $23,351 |
| Modafinil | 82 | $19,842 |
| Aripiprazole | 105 | $15,945 |
| Adderall XrDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine | 20 | $14,189 |
| Vilazodone Hcl | 67 | $10,172 |
| TrileptalOxcarbazepine | 11 | $8,987 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 302 | $8,002 |
| DayvigoLemborexant | 17 | $6,949 |
| SavellaMilnacipran Hcl | 15 | $6,944 |
| Olanzapine | 188 | $6,510 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 269 | $6,192 |
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 | $801 | $313,18039 claims |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals IncNuplazid | $95 | $65,33514 claims |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Rexulti | $561 | $33,36918 claims |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix | $631 | $26,62328 claims |
| AbbVieSavella | $2,373 | $6,94415 claims |
| Almatica Pharma LLCSertraline Hcl | $140 | $1,879168 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 90th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.
Other psychiatry in Santa Barbara
- Elly LeeIrvine$49.8M
- Daniel ChuehOrange$17.9M
- Eric ChavezSan Diego$15.5M
- Lara ShirikjianTorrance$12.6M
- John DuffySanta Ana$12M
- Marina BusselPlaya Vista$12M
- Sherry SoefjeOceanside$11.9M
- Steven MacinaHuntington Beach$11.1M
- Wakelin McNeelRosemead$11M
- Donald AndersonBanning$10.5M
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.