Has Richard Hess, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $498 in general payments to Richard Hess, MD across 18 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Richard Hess, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Richard Hess, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Richard Hess, MD

Psychiatry · New York, NYNPI 1841384716

Payments from drug & device makers

$498in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $27.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$147
Johnson & Johnson$88
Alkermes, Inc.$87
Lundbeck LLC$74
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$55
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$27
plus $20 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$498100%

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.

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
Abbott	1	$147
Johnson & Johnson	4	$88
Alkermes, Inc.	5	$87
Lundbeck LLC	3	$74
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$55
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	1	$27
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$20

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.

Proclaim IPG$147

How this compares

$498 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 3,713 psychiatry providers in New York.

See all psychiatry providers in New York →

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$62,945

Medicare patients

Services billed

607

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
Duloxetine Hcl	34	$786
Aripiprazole	38	$660
Escitalopram Oxalate	38	$586
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	36	$542
Lorazepam	33	$483
Buspirone Hcl	21	$339
Sertraline Hcl	36	$326
Trazodone Hcl	39	$263
Alprazolam	54	$210
Clonazepam	38	$164
Quetiapine Fumarate	11	$127
Gabapentin	17	$113
Mirtazapine	12	$61

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatry in New York

Michael LiebowitzNew York$7.1M
Paul EderNew York$2.7M
Lenard AdlerNew York$1.8M
Ram ShrivastavaNew York$1.8M
Jonathan KaneNew York$1.8M
Eric HollanderNew York$1.4M
William HapworthNew York$1.3M
Manish ZinzuvadiaNew York$1.3M
Jianping ChenNew York$1.2M
Anthony ZoghbiNew York$1.1M

See the full list for New York →

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.

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →