Scott Ruder, MD
Psychiatry · Nashville, TNNPI 1790733939
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 306 payments — averaging $19.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$740
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$498
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$409
- Lundbeck LLC$346
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$341
- plus $2K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,827100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 106 | $1,213 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 23 | $740 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 23 | $498 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 19 | $409 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 15 | $346 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 16 | $341 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 10 | $249 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 8 | $221 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 8 | $196 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $170 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 8 | $164 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 7 | $148 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $144 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $133 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $120 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 4 | $85 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 4 | $77 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 4 | $75 |
| Eisai Inc. | 4 | $73 |
| Corium, LLC | 4 | $72 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 2 | $44 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 2 | $35 |
| Merck | 2 | $32 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, 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.
How this compares
$5,827 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 503 psychiatry providers in Tennessee.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RexultiBrexpiprazole | 21 | $32,455 |
| TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide | 35 | $18,783 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 126 | $3,833 |
| Divalproex Sodium | 15 | $3,165 |
| Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate | 38 | $2,915 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 115 | $2,103 |
| Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine | 57 | $1,799 |
| Alprazolam | 204 | $1,635 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 123 | $1,546 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl | 82 | $1,485 |
| Methylphenidate ErMethylphenidate Hcl | 11 | $1,018 |
| Clonazepam | 161 | $951 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 53 | $876 |
| Aripiprazole | 51 | $767 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 47 | $756 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Rexulti | $498 | $32,45521 claims |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix | $409 | $18,78335 claims |
| Almatica Pharma LLCSertraline Hcl | $19 | $22918 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 503 psychiatry providers in Tennessee.
Other psychiatry in Nashville
- Rakesh AminNashville$3M
- Paul NewhouseNashville$1.4M
- Patricia AndrewsNashville$748K
- Robert FallisNashville$241K
- Robert JamiesonNashville$141K
- Michelle CochranNashville$74K
- Amanda Sparks-BushnellNashville$66K
- Jo WilsonNashville$60K
- James KyserNashville$50K
- Craig ClarkNashville$31K
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.