Scott Aaronson
Psychiatry · Baltimore, MDNPI 1376610790
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 629 payments — averaging $2034.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Livanova USA, Inc.$682K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$252K
- Sage Therapeutics, LLC$180K
- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$67K
- Neuronetics, Inc.$47K
- Johnson & Johnson$43K
- plus $8K from 5 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $2137.50 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Neuronetics, Inc.$4K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$111,25833%
- Speaking & faculty fees$197,85659%
- Travel & lodging$17,2025%
- Food & beverage$4,8211%
- Education$3,3001%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 478 | $681,901 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | 33 | $251,570 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 31 | $180,429 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. | 4 | $67,306 |
| Neuronetics, Inc. | 17 | $47,327 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 51 | $43,216 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $5,182 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $2,546 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Zap Surgical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $21 |
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.
- VNS Therapy Symmetry Model 8103 Generator$164,704
- VNS Therapy$63,889
- SPRAVATO$42,309
- NEUROSTAR TMS THERAPY$25,290
- VNS - Symmetry$12,349
- NEUROSTAR TMS THERAPY SYSTEM$7,625
- LATUDA$5,106
- VNS THERAPY SENTIVA MODEL 1000 GENERATOR$3,400
- VNS - Sentiva$225
- INGREZZA$116
How this compares
$1,279,662 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 851 psychiatry providers in Maryland.
Other psychiatry in Baltimore
- Akira SawaBaltimore$5.1M
- John VaethBaltimore$2.1M
- Paul RosenbergBaltimore$1.9M
- Karen AndersonBaltimore$1.1M
- Constantine LyketsosBaltimore$1.1M
- Alan JonasBaltimore$1.1M
- Sarah HertsBaltimore$1M
- Robert LehmanBaltimore$947K
- Marc FishmanBaltimore$822K
- Adam KaplinBaltimore$660K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.