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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,619 in general payments to Richard Palmer, 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 Palmer, 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 Palmer, 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 Palmer, MD

Psychiatry · Torrance, CANPI 1881873081

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,619in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $89.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AstraZeneca$289
Johnson & Johnson$269
Seagen Inc.$240
AbbVie$238
Pfizer$212
Genentech USA, Inc.$150
plus $221 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,58998%
Education$302%

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
AstraZeneca	3	$289
Johnson & Johnson	3	$269
Seagen Inc.	2	$240
AbbVie(2 entities)	4	$238
Pfizer	2	$212
Genentech USA, Inc.	1	$150
Sanofi	1	$101
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$92
Cvrx, Inc.	1	$29

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

$1,619 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$114,901

Medicare patients

Services billed

1,278

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
TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide	11	$5,292
Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate	20	$2,975
Aripiprazole	22	$2,973
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	105	$2,840
Trazodone Hcl	105	$1,384
Escitalopram Oxalate	86	$1,035
Citalopram HbrCitalopram Hydrobromide	106	$948
Fluoxetine Hcl	53	$840
Lorazepam	115	$790
Phenelzine Sulfate	22	$744
Quetiapine Fumarate	15	$695
Dextroamphetamine-Amphet ErDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine	11	$578
Duloxetine Hcl	27	$528
Clonazepam	67	$430
Alprazolam	90	$412

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatry in Torrance

Lara ShirikjianTorrance$12.6M
Kevin StephanoffTorrance$992K
Elly LeeIrvine$49.8M
Daniel ChuehOrange$17.9M
Eric ChavezSan Diego$15.5M
John DuffySanta Ana$12M
Marina BusselPlaya Vista$12M
Sherry SoefjeOceanside$11.9M
Steven MacinaHuntington Beach$11.1M
Wakelin McNeelRosemead$11M

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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.

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