Has Steven Choi received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,144 in general payments to Steven Choi across 169 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 Steven Choi 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 Steven Choi 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.

Steven Choi

Psychiatry · Martinsburg, WVNPI 1700085263

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.3% of the total across 169 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 42 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,013, 7.6 times the $396 reported in 2021.

$4,144in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 169 payments — averaging $24.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$825
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$390
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$332
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$267
EMD Serono, Inc.$207
Eisai Inc.$202
plus $2K from 36 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$251%
Food & beverage$4,07398%
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	22	$825
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	12	$390
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	10	$332
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	11	$267
EMD Serono, Inc.	3	$207
Eisai Inc.	22	$202
Lundbeck LLC	14	$183
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	7	$168
Biogen	7	$160
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	6	$158
Harmony Biosciences LLC	4	$111
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$91
Lilly USA, LLC	4	$89
Johnson & Johnson	2	$67
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$65
Indivior Inc.	1	$61
Pfizer	2	$55
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$51
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$51
Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.	2	$50
Argenx US, Inc.	2	$44
Alkermes, Inc.	2	$43
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$40
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$36
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$33
Boston Scientific	1	$29
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	2	$29
Neurelis, Inc.	1	$26
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$25
Corium, LLC	2	$25
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$25
3b Medical, Inc.	1	$25
Noctrix Health, Inc.	1	$25
C2n Diagnostics, LLC	1	$23
UCB, Inc.	1	$22
Grifols USA, LLC	1	$19
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$19
Bioxcel Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$19
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$17
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	1	$17
Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$14
Neuronetics, Inc.	1	$6

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.

VRAYLAR$237
Austedo XR$124
Duopa$116
SUNOSI$107

How this compares

$4,144 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 177 psychiatry providers in West Virginia.

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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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