RxDoctor Payments Data

Naveed Merchant, MD

Psychiatry · Gainesville, GANPI 1841726197

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,533in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 78 payments — averaging $19.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$306
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$239
  • AbbVie$199
  • Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$122
  • Alkermes, Inc.$101
  • Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$95
  • plus $472 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,533100%

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

$1,533 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 900 psychiatry providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$33,343
Medicare patients
60
Services billed
1,111

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
Invega SustennaPaliperidone Palmitate29$87,294
RexultiBrexpiprazole30$54,455
VraylarCariprazine Hcl12$16,826
BelsomraSuvorexant33$14,917
Lurasidone Hcl50$12,892
Aripiprazole86$4,028
Duloxetine Hcl152$3,086
Quetiapine Fumarate124$2,976
Mirtazapine188$2,918
Buspirone Hcl190$2,258
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl83$1,764
Trazodone Hcl170$1,690
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl73$1,682
Divalproex Sodium ErDivalproex Sodium16$1,579
Sertraline Hcl105$1,377

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
Johnson & JohnsonInvega Sustenna$306$87,29429 claims
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Rexulti$239$54,45530 claims
AbbVieVraylar$199$16,82612 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 70th percentile of 900 psychiatry providers in Georgia.

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