Has Sandra Okengwu received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $789 in general payments to Sandra Okengwu across 42 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 Sandra Okengwu 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 Sandra Okengwu 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.

Sandra Okengwu

Psychiatric/Mental Health · Amherst, NYNPI 1225711047

Payments from drug & device makers

$789in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 42 payments — averaging $18.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$263
AbbVie$137
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$100
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$98
Lundbeck LLC$58
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$55
plus $78 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$789100%

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
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	15	$263
AbbVie	8	$137
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	5	$100
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	4	$98
Lundbeck LLC	3	$58
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$55
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$28
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	1	$17
Johnson & Johnson	1	$17
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$16

How this compares

$789 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 2,385 psychiatric/mental health providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$4,118

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	39	$721
Quetiapine Fumarate	64	$534
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	29	$504
Olanzapine	21	$330
Prazosin Hcl	37	$274
Gabapentin	21	$268
Buspirone Hcl	35	$266
Duloxetine Hcl	25	$244
Lamotrigine	22	$234
Aripiprazole	22	$226
Sertraline Hcl	28	$209
Propranolol Hcl	25	$189
Trazodone Hcl	33	$186
Escitalopram Oxalate	22	$157
Risperidone	21	$114

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatric/mental health in Amherst

Jeanne Salada-ConroyAmherst$10K
Glenn HannDansville$1.3M
Tammy RussoNiskayuna$568K
Carrie EdickSchenectady$484K
Eric SpronzCentereach$448K
Terry Jo Brooks-DevlinTonawanda$176K
Kevin SiewersStaten Island$155K
Daniel BreeyearNiskayuna$149K
Mary OlsonNew York$142K
Elijah StevensBinghamton$131K

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.

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