Has Sara Ocker received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,618 in general payments to Sara Ocker across 35 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 Sara Ocker 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 Sara Ocker 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.

Sara Ocker

Psychiatric/Mental Health · Cambridge, MNNPI 1427624584

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,803 of the $2,618 with a category attached, or 68.9%. Neuronetics, Inc. accounts for 84.2% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,714 and has fallen 95.7% since, to $74 in 2025. Among psychiatric/mental health clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$2,618in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $74.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Neuronetics, Inc.$2K
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$77
Tempus AI, Inc$55
Indivior Inc.$46
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$43
Lundbeck LLC$40
plus $152 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$81531%
Food & beverage$1,80369%

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
Neuronetics, Inc.	12	$2,205
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$77
Tempus AI, Inc	2	$55
Indivior Inc.	2	$46
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	3	$43
Lundbeck LLC	3	$40
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$38
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$36
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$18
AbbVie	1	$17
Alkermes, Inc.	1	$16
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$14
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$14

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.

NEUROSTAR TMS THERAPY SYSTEM$1,971

How this compares

$2,618 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 407 psychiatric/mental health providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$10,342

Medicare patients

Services billed

115

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
CaplytaLumateperone Tosylate	15	$24,316
Aripiprazole	27	$4,449
Quetiapine Fumarate ErQuetiapine Fumarate	11	$1,196
Haloperidol	24	$1,019
Duloxetine Hcl	62	$894
Hydroxyzine Hcl	38	$846
Prazosin Hcl	25	$748
Quetiapine Fumarate	57	$721
Trazodone Hcl	59	$698
Buspirone Hcl	52	$610
Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate	13	$591
Lamotrigine	56	$474
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	33	$393
Fluoxetine Hcl	38	$379
Methylphenidate Hcl	13	$376

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatric/mental health in Cambridge

Wendi TvedtCambridge$526
Teresa DuncanCambridge$492
Jacqualine GervaisMoorhead$29K
Naomi KoenigSandstone$8K
Dana BageonWayzata$7K
Jill ScottAnoka$5K
Holly WillisMinneapolis$5K
Gerard BalanMinneapolis$5K
Hilary BreedonShakopee$3K
Tina AlexanderEdina$3K

See the full list for Minnesota →

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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