Has Paul Cusano, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $252 in general payments to Paul Cusano, MD across 19 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Paul Cusano, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Paul Cusano, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Paul Cusano, MD

Psychiatry · Clifton, NJNPI 1710924048

Payments from drug & device makers

$252in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $13.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$48
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$45
Johnson & Johnson$42
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$34
Lundbeck LLC$16
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$15
plus $52 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$252100%

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
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	2	$48
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	6	$45
Johnson & Johnson	3	$42
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$34
Lundbeck LLC	1	$16
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$15
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$15
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$13
AbbVie	1	$12
Alkermes, Inc.	1	$12

How this compares

$252 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,119 psychiatry providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$23,507

Medicare patients

Services billed

184

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
AtivanLorazepam	12	$38,576
Fluphenazine Hcl	13	$3,349
Zolpidem Tartrate	45	$2,815
Fluvoxamine Maleate	16	$1,720
Imipramine Hcl	42	$1,461
Butalbital-Acetaminophen-CaffeButalb/Acetaminophen/Caffeine	14	$1,451
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	100	$1,394
Alprazolam	187	$1,326
Clonazepam	115	$1,140
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	31	$902
Trazodone Hcl	64	$826
Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine	23	$763
Lorazepam	124	$696
Risperidone	79	$679
Aripiprazole	25	$649

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatry in Clifton

Leon RosenbergCherry Hill$6.4M
Steven GlassClementon$3.9M
Judith JosephPaterson$3.8M
Jeffrey ApterPrinceton$1.7M
Roberta BallCherry Hill$741K
Marc CantillonLivingston$524K
Sanjay VarmaPrinceton$479K
Manuel SanchezNewark$474K
Robert BransfieldRed Bank$415K
Erika ConcepcionLong Branch$354K

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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.

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