Vatsala Bhaskaran, MD
Psychiatry · Houston, TXNPI 1427040401
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 63 payments — averaging $26.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$315
- Johnson & Johnson$246
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$192
- Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc$154
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$143
- Neos Therapeutics, LP$129
- plus $482 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,661100%
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(2 entities) | 18 | $315 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $246 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 7 | $192 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 4 | $154 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $143 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 5 | $129 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 3 | $87 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 3 | $66 |
| Corium, LLC | 3 | $54 |
| Rhodes Pharmaceuticals L.p. | 2 | $46 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $24 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $23 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| OWP Pharmaceuticals, 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
$1,661 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,238 psychiatry providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| IngrezzaValbenazine Tosylate | 12 | $93,842 |
| Lurasidone Hcl | 46 | $17,211 |
| Aripiprazole | 78 | $6,630 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 163 | $6,455 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 267 | $5,786 |
| Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate | 82 | $5,128 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 214 | $4,176 |
| Divalproex Sodium ErDivalproex Sodium | 63 | $3,910 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 244 | $3,234 |
| Ziprasidone Hcl | 55 | $2,720 |
| Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl | 99 | $2,695 |
| Alprazolam | 276 | $2,203 |
| Oxcarbazepine | 32 | $2,201 |
| Vilazodone Hcl | 12 | $2,156 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 144 | $1,826 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.Ingrezza | $87 | $93,84212 claims |
| Almatica Pharma LLCSertraline Hcl | $32 | $1,826144 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 75th percentile of 2,238 psychiatry providers in Texas.
Other psychiatry in Houston
- Matthew BramsHouston$3M
- Lawrence GinsbergHouston$2.4M
- Asim ShahHouston$2.2M
- Aqeel HashmiHouston$1.3M
- Robert EarleHouston$1.1M
- Frank ChenHouston$941K
- Joao de QuevedoHouston$890K
- Alice MaoHouston$850K
- Mazhar KhowajaHouston$843K
- Barry GritzHouston$792K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.