Has Stephan Becker, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $450 in general payments to Stephan Becker, MD across 24 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 Stephan Becker, 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 Stephan Becker, 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.

Stephan Becker, MD

Psychiatry · Ooltewah, TNNPI 1063678795

Payments from drug & device makers

$450in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $18.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$116
Neuronetics, Inc.$106
AbbVie$74
Alkermes, Inc.$35
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$30
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$30
plus $59 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$41793%
Education$337%

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
Johnson & Johnson	7	$116
Neuronetics, Inc.	3	$106
AbbVie	4	$74
Alkermes, Inc.	2	$35
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$30
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	2	$30
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$29
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$17
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$12

How this compares

$450 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 503 psychiatry providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$113,421

Medicare patients

247

Services billed

1,108

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
FanaptIloperidone	25	$37,634
Memantine Hcl	306	$12,591
Aripiprazole	108	$11,217
VyvanseLisdexamfetamine Dimesylate	22	$8,611
Olanzapine	225	$4,973
Quetiapine Fumarate	327	$4,671
Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate	23	$4,573
Fluphenazine Hcl	12	$3,728
Duloxetine Hcl	138	$3,661
Prazosin Hcl	175	$3,535
Trazodone Hcl	406	$3,478
Mirtazapine	150	$3,453
Clozapine	53	$3,450
Sertraline Hcl	303	$3,089
Methylphenidate	13	$3,011

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatry in Ooltewah

Rakesh AminNashville$3M
Brian BonfardinJohnson City$2.6M
Paul NewhouseNashville$1.4M
John FenleyJohnson City$1.4M
Anita VarmaMemphis$1.3M
Patricia AndrewsNashville$748K
David SnowMaryville$605K
Jonathan BeckerBrentwood$261K
Robert FallisNashville$241K
James HartFranklin$226K

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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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