Has Sohail Cheema, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $541 in general payments to Sohail Cheema, MD across 23 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 Sohail Cheema, 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 Sohail Cheema, 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.

Sohail Cheema, MD

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · Westbury, NYNPI 1457483042

Payments from drug & device makers

$541in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 23 payments — averaging $23.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$101
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$77
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$67
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$47
Neos Therapeutics, LP$43
Lundbeck LLC$42
plus $165 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$49491%
Education$479%

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
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	4	$101
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$77
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$67
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	1	$47
Neos Therapeutics, LP	2	$43
Lundbeck LLC	2	$42
AbbVie	2	$40
Shire North American Group Inc	2	$33
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	1	$31
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	1	$24
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$20
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$17

How this compares

$541 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 317 child & adolescent psychiatry providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$553,165

Medicare patients

908

Services billed

7,191

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
Chlorpromazine Hcl	79	$25,664
Quetiapine Fumarate	886	$18,858
Aripiprazole	340	$17,618
LatudaLurasidone Hcl	12	$17,383
Divalproex Sodium	423	$17,052
Risperidone	1,108	$12,146
Aripiprazole OdtAripiprazole	17	$11,458
Clozapine	184	$9,128
Divalproex Sodium ErDivalproex Sodium	168	$9,057
RisperdalRisperidone	13	$9,044
Clomipramine Hcl	150	$8,958
Olanzapine	522	$7,695
Paxil CrParoxetine Hcl	13	$7,053
Asenapine Maleate	28	$6,654
Mirtazapine	289	$6,276

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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