RxDoctor Payments Data

Philipp Sack, MD

Psychiatry · Pleasant Hill, CANPI 1790974863

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,714in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 129 payments — averaging $13.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$440
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$333
  • ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$157
  • Alkermes, Inc.$139
  • Johnson & Johnson$124
  • Lundbeck LLC$111
  • plus $410 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,58592%
  • Education$1298%

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.

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

$1,714 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$253,998
Medicare patients
183
Services billed
2,291

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
VraylarCariprazine Hcl34$50,499
RexultiBrexpiprazole16$29,396
BelsomraSuvorexant32$15,989
TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide21$15,278
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl128$4,273
Aripiprazole76$2,925
Mirtazapine135$2,278
Olanzapine47$2,255
Buspirone Hcl122$2,077
Quetiapine Fumarate124$1,940
Doxepin Hcl74$1,532
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl45$1,532
Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine35$1,520
Lorazepam233$1,285
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl23$1,255

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
AbbVieVraylar$440$50,49934 claims
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Rexulti$333$29,39616 claims
MerckBelsomra$13$15,98932 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix$41$15,27821 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 80th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.

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