Rachna Saralkar, MD
Psychiatry · Oakland, CANPI 1376832162
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 167 payments — averaging $14.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$468
- Johnson & Johnson$419
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$294
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$239
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$233
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$193
- plus $656 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,47199%
- Education$321%
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(2 entities) | 41 | $468 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 18 | $419 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 23 | $294 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 13 | $239 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 14 | $233 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 11 | $193 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 10 | $183 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 13 | $151 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 4 | $86 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 2 | $56 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 11 | $51 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Neuronetics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $16 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$2,502 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate | 12 | $2,397 |
| Aripiprazole | 17 | $2,017 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 58 | $1,802 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 56 | $1,437 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 53 | $1,036 |
| Gabapentin | 59 | $907 |
| Mirtazapine | 57 | $893 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 61 | $772 |
| Clonazepam | 62 | $693 |
| Fluoxetine Hcl | 43 | $684 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 46 | $667 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 20 | $623 |
| Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine | 14 | $510 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 16 | $448 |
| Lorazepam | 49 | $445 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other psychiatry in Oakland
- Elly LeeIrvine$49.8M
- Daniel ChuehOrange$17.9M
- Eric ChavezSan Diego$15.5M
- Lara ShirikjianTorrance$12.6M
- John DuffySanta Ana$12M
- Marina BusselPlaya Vista$12M
- Sherry SoefjeOceanside$11.9M
- Steven MacinaHuntington Beach$11.1M
- Wakelin McNeelRosemead$11M
- Donald AndersonBanning$10.5M
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.