Walter Elliston, MD
Psychiatry · Frisco, TXNPI 1912902537
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,499 of the $2,049 with a category attached, or 73.2%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Neos Therapeutics, LP at 33.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,767 and has fallen 98.1% since, to $33 in 2025.
Across 72 payments — averaging $28.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Neos Therapeutics, LP$688
- AbbVie$293
- Alkermes, Inc.$158
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$158
- Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$116
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$105
- plus $531 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$55027%
- Food & beverage$1,49973%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 3 | $688 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 18 | $293 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 7 | $158 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $158 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $116 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 6 | $105 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $93 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $73 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 5 | $67 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $43 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $36 |
| Neuronetics, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| GSK | 2 | $30 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Corium, LLC | 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.
- Adzenys XR-ODT$675
- Cotempla XR-ODT$675
- VRAYLAR$123
How this compares
$2,049 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate | 24 | $8,224 |
| Lurasidone Hcl | 17 | $8,158 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 157 | $4,313 |
| Aripiprazole | 83 | $3,936 |
| Divalproex Sodium ErDivalproex Sodium | 22 | $3,633 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 109 | $3,416 |
| Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate | 70 | $3,329 |
| Lamotrigine | 158 | $3,328 |
| Olanzapine OdtOlanzapine | 18 | $2,975 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 99 | $2,697 |
| Clozapine | 26 | $2,534 |
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 18 | $2,223 |
| Paliperidone ErPaliperidone | 15 | $2,012 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 98 | $1,306 |
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 93 | $1,235 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other psychiatry in Frisco
- Rakesh JainLake Jackson$7.2M
- Arvinder Pal WaliaAustin$2.5M
- Suresh SureddiPlano$2.2M
- Martin GuerreroEl Paso$2M
- Marty BennettAddison$1.8M
- Matthew BramsHouston$1.5M
- Vikram MehraKaty$1.2M
- Joel HolinerDallas$948K
- Frank ChenHouston$941K
- Alice MaoHouston$850K
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.