Stephen Chesser
Psychiatric/Mental Health · Panama City, FLNPI 1578696977
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 207 payments — averaging $20.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$834
- Johnson & Johnson$338
- Lundbeck LLC$239
- Eisai Inc.$205
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$204
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,14499%
- Education$471%
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 | 63 | $1,002 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 23 | $834 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $338 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 13 | $239 |
| Eisai Inc. | 11 | $205 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 13 | $204 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 13 | $175 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $128 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $124 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 6 | $124 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $112 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $111 |
| Corium, LLC | 5 | $102 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 3 | $77 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $52 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 2 | $40 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Merck | 1 | $24 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$4,191 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 3,096 psychiatric/mental health providers in Florida.
Other psychiatric/mental health in Panama City
- Roger RiveraKissimmee$1.6M
- Bethanie Simmons BecilJacksonville$782K
- Hannah PhillipsMaitland$455K
- Cheedy JajaTampa$266K
- Scott DurrancePensacola$224K
- Eudaldo AponteHialeah$214K
- Heather WarrenTallahassee$172K
- Angela DavenportAlachua$83K
- Natalie MoodyWinter Haven$75K
- Kelli BridgmanNew Smyrna Beach$66K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.