Valerie Neitsch
Physician Assistant · Amarillo, TXNPI 1144745720
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 110 payments — averaging $18.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$341
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$192
- Corium, LLC$189
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$186
- Lundbeck LLC$170
- Tris Pharma Inc$138
- plus $765 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,981100%
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.
How this compares
$1,981 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Aripiprazole | 12 | $241 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 15 | $210 |
| Lamotrigine | 27 | $204 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 19 | $199 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 12 | $177 |
| Fluoxetine Hcl | 16 | $145 |
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 14 | $118 |
| Hydroxyzine Hcl | 14 | $108 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Amarillo
- Cynthia TrickettDallas$1.3M
- Kristine KuceraMelissa$797K
- Selina SantosAustin$543K
- Matthew BrunoMcKinney$538K
- Anthony DerenciusSan Antonio$507K
- Brooke HodnickSouthlake$479K
- Holly GloverArlington$418K
- Kirk GautierAthens$416K
- Jaime RomanPlano$338K
- Michael WhiteDallas$276K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.