Rachel Chu
Psychiatric/Mental Health · Asheville, NCNPI 1568133916
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 118 payments — averaging $20.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$522
- Alkermes, Inc.$375
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$228
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$218
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$187
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$183
- plus $649 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,361100%
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 | 31 | $522 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 16 | $375 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 10 | $228 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 15 | $218 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 4 | $187 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 9 | $183 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 8 | $144 |
| Indivior Inc. | 4 | $94 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $93 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $72 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 4 | $72 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| Corium, LLC | 5 | $67 |
| Braeburn Inc. | 2 | $37 |
How this compares
$2,361 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 947 psychiatric/mental health providers in North Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Divalproex Sodium | 183 | $5,057 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 210 | $1,745 |
| Mirtazapine | 28 | $1,065 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 41 | $467 |
| Lorazepam | 20 | $430 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 17 | $364 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 11 | $342 |
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 31 | $329 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 19 | $322 |
| Olanzapine | 13 | $313 |
| Lamotrigine | 42 | $249 |
| Clonazepam | 19 | $235 |
| Benztropine Mesylate | 12 | $196 |
| Aripiprazole | 15 | $114 |
| Alprazolam | 16 | $108 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other psychiatric/mental health in Asheville
- Desiree MatthewsCharlotte$807K
- Benedetto PalomboCharlotte$671K
- Clarence RunnelsCreedmoor$339K
- Lisa SuddrethGastonia$111K
- April NandigamGreensboro$88K
- Hannah NealeyFuquay Varina$75K
- Jessica StoneRocky Mount$63K
- Deborah GranickRaleigh$28K
- Ronald PattersonFayetteville$25K
- Ajay PatelRaleigh$19K
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.