Rajendra Sanikop
Psychiatry · Baltimore, MDNPI 1780668830
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.2% of the total across 202 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 13 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,389 and has fallen 84.6% since, to $215 in 2023. Among psychiatry clinicians in MD with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 202 payments — averaging $19.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$768
- AbbVie$659
- Johnson & Johnson$646
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$394
- Lundbeck LLC$345
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$286
- plus $855 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,92099%
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 35 | $768 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 38 | $659 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 33 | $646 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 17 | $394 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 19 | $345 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 12 | $286 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 10 | $191 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 7 | $165 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 10 | $148 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 7 | $117 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $106 |
| Eisai Inc. | 5 | $90 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $38 |
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
$3,952 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 851 psychiatry providers in Maryland.
Other psychiatry in Baltimore
- John VaethBaltimore$2.1M
- Scott AaronsonBaltimore$334K
- Robert LehmanBaltimore$140K
- Karen AndersonBaltimore$117K
- Orlando DavisBaltimore$104K
- Akira SawaBaltimore$69K
- Paul RosenbergBaltimore$66K
- Adam KaplinBaltimore$62K
- Marc FishmanBaltimore$59K
- David NeubauerBaltimore$59K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.