RxDoctor Payments Data

Torang Sepah, MD

Psychiatry · Pasadena, CANPI 1598901167

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,692in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 69 payments — averaging $24.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$639
  • Harmony Biosciences LLC$210
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$203
  • Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$131
  • Bausch Health US, LLC$119
  • Lundbeck LLC$93
  • plus $297 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,56793%
  • Education$1257%

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

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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.

How this compares

$1,692 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$133,762
Medicare patients
36
Services billed
834

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Invega SustennaPaliperidone Palmitate17$44,787
RexultiBrexpiprazole21$31,455
AuvelityDextromethorphan Hbr/Bupropion19$23,148
TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide15$6,698
Duloxetine Hcl23$2,535
Liothyronine Sodium45$1,723
Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate11$1,051
Aripiprazole20$618
Trazodone Hcl83$466
Buspirone Hcl58$390
Mirtazapine19$272
Propranolol Hcl29$237
Fluoxetine Hcl27$201
Escitalopram Oxalate23$168
Nortriptyline Hcl16$125

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Johnson & JohnsonInvega Sustenna$639$44,78717 claims
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Rexulti$203$31,45521 claims
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.Auvelity$131$23,14819 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix$84$6,69815 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 80th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.

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