Tarun Bhandari
Psychiatry · Martinez, CANPI 1437382470
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 644 payments — averaging $20.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$2K
- Lundbeck LLC$1K
- Alkermes, Inc.$1K
- AbbVie$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$958
- plus $5K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$13,10099%
- Education$1701%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 86 | $1,942 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 96 | $1,465 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 60 | $1,448 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 77 | $1,274 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 46 | $1,170 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 39 | $958 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 24 | $745 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 18 | $649 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 23 | $580 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 47 | $563 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 26 | $516 |
| Corium, LLC | 29 | $410 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 19 | $382 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 15 | $325 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $158 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 6 | $120 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 5 | $111 |
| Neuronetics, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 6 | $83 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 4 | $74 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Biogen | 1 | $14 |
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
$13,270 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Risperidone | 16 | $151 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other psychiatry in Martinez
- Elly LeeIrvine$49.8M
- Daniel ChuehOrange$17.9M
- Eric ChavezSan Diego$15.5M
- Lara ShirikjianTorrance$12.6M
- John DuffySanta Ana$12M
- Marina BusselPlaya Vista$12M
- Sherry SoefjeOceanside$11.9M
- Steven MacinaHuntington Beach$11.1M
- Wakelin McNeelRosemead$11M
- Donald AndersonBanning$10.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.