Has Stephen McCarthy received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,228 in general payments to Stephen McCarthy across 311 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 Stephen McCarthy 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 Stephen McCarthy 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.

Stephen McCarthy

Medical · Bethlehem, PANPI 1912308743

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,228in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 311 payments — averaging $20.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$2K
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$828
Alkermes, Inc.$682
Johnson & Johnson$681
AbbVie$553
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$478
plus $1K from 10 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$6,10598%
Education$1232%

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
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	86	$1,849
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	39	$828
Alkermes, Inc.	26	$682
Johnson & Johnson	30	$681
AbbVie(2 entities)	28	$553
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	31	$478
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	21	$290
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	10	$264
Neos Therapeutics, LP	14	$181
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	9	$124
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	5	$97
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	5	$85
Orexo US, Inc.	3	$47
Lundbeck LLC	2	$40
Braeburn Inc.	1	$17
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	1	$13

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

$6,228 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,594 medical providers in Pennsylvania.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
FanaptIloperidone	14	$32,146
LybalviOlanzapine/Samidorphan Malate	15	$25,124
Clozapine	39	$3,919
Risperidone	64	$2,925
Divalproex Sodium	61	$2,824
Olanzapine	38	$1,916
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	23	$1,468
Aripiprazole	21	$1,411
Quetiapine Fumarate	46	$1,196
Hydroxyzine Hcl	42	$1,075
Carbamazepine ErCarbamazepine	13	$981
Divalproex Sodium ErDivalproex Sodium	17	$949
Trazodone Hcl	24	$803
Fluoxetine Hcl	37	$737
Topiramate	19	$705

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
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.Fanapt	$478	$32,14614 claims
Alkermes, Inc.Lybalvi	$682	$25,12415 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 90th percentile of 2,594 medical providers in Pennsylvania.

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Cory DavidsonErie$119K
Shelley SassamanTamaqua$90K
Thomas IacovoniDanville$72K
Scott CoxWynnewood$66K
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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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