Has Paul Pristas, NP received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,890 in general payments to Paul Pristas, NP across 155 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 Pristas, NP 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 Pristas, NP 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 Pristas, NP

Psychiatric/Mental Health · Franklin, TNNPI 1356068613

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,890in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 155 payments — averaging $18.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$462
Alkermes, Inc.$437
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$236
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$230
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$202
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$154
plus $1K from 15 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,890100%

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	30	$462
Alkermes, Inc.	18	$437
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	12	$236
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	11	$230
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	10	$202
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	14	$154
Tris Pharma Inc	9	$148
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	6	$131
Bausch Health US, LLC	6	$120
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	5	$104
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	5	$104
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	6	$102
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	5	$101
Corium, LLC	4	$67
Neos Therapeutics, LP	3	$62
Merck	3	$57
Lundbeck LLC	2	$43
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$40
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	2	$35
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$29
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	1	$25

How this compares

$2,890 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,167 psychiatric/mental health providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$5,922

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Dextroamphetamine-Amphet ErDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine	36	$1,638
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	27	$1,159
Duloxetine Hcl	25	$906
Mirtazapine	20	$796
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	19	$561
Buspirone Hcl	24	$516
Lamotrigine	26	$416
Escitalopram Oxalate	22	$415
Sertraline Hcl	21	$370
Clonazepam	39	$303
Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine	12	$168
Olanzapine	12	$158
Zolpidem Tartrate	29	$93
Lorazepam	37	$78
Diazepam	20	$68

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatric/mental health in Franklin

Shandy McDonaldFranklin$11K
Stephanie KressFranklin$8K
Laura MelaroBolivar$682K
Fay BembryJohnson City$449K
Kristian DambrinoNashville$449K
Mary AllenMemphis$422K
Lauren HansenNashville$263K
Joshua ThompsonChattanooga$262K
Kristal HurstBlaine$260K
Kaitlynn EarlsGreeneville$228K

See the full list for Tennessee →

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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