Praful Desai, MD
Psychiatry · Newark, DENPI 1841383718
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 82 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 15 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $543, 4.7 times the $116 reported in 2019.
Across 82 payments — averaging $19.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$304
- Lundbeck LLC$234
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$217
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$157
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$150
- Alkermes, Inc.$149
- plus $416 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,627100%
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.
How this compares
$1,627 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 114 psychiatry providers in Delaware.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Memantine Hcl | 17 | $1,233 |
| Divalproex Sodium ErDivalproex Sodium | 30 | $755 |
| Olanzapine | 34 | $604 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 51 | $421 |
| Aripiprazole | 11 | $353 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 47 | $334 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 25 | $273 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 54 | $227 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 40 | $217 |
| Omeprazole | 26 | $217 |
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 13 | $202 |
| Gabapentin | 30 | $197 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 23 | $157 |
| Hydroxyzine Pamoate | 18 | $152 |
| Losartan Potassium | 15 | $148 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other psychiatry in Newark
- Dilipkumar JoshiNewark$6K
- Jeet JoshiNewark$5K
- Alexander JacobsonNewark$4K
- Diana GermosenNewark$883
- Audrey LongsonNewark$876
- Saurabh GuptaNewark$851
- Parth VirojaNewark$369
- Jay WeisbergNewark$185
- Saleem KhanNewark$151
- Ranganathan RamWilmington$202K
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.