Zahida Sairitupa, APRN
Psychiatric/Mental Health · Danbury, CTNPI 1831120674
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 791 payments — averaging $24.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$4K
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$2K
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$2K
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$2K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$1K
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$1K
- plus $7K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$19,010100%
- Education$70%
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 | 193 | $3,754 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 54 | $2,002 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 61 | $1,899 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 49 | $1,538 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 52 | $1,499 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 106 | $1,324 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 41 | $816 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 24 | $800 |
| Corium, LLC | 33 | $708 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 26 | $635 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 19 | $566 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 17 | $558 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. | 8 | $504 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 20 | $469 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 16 | $352 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 18 | $327 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $292 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 7 | $117 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 5 | $111 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $106 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $98 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 5 | $98 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $76 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $59 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 3 | $49 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $48 |
| Merck | 2 | $36 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 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
$19,017 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 679 psychiatric/mental health providers in Connecticut.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide | 31 | $20,803 |
| Aripiprazole | 13 | $4,964 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 28 | $546 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 63 | $490 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 62 | $463 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 35 | $448 |
| Lamotrigine | 34 | $445 |
| Mirtazapine | 53 | $441 |
| Clonazepam | 64 | $415 |
| Buspirone Hcl | 22 | $391 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate ErZolpidem Tartrate | 12 | $390 |
| Lorazepam | 51 | $337 |
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 30 | $303 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $251 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 11 | $201 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix | $1,499 | $20,80331 claims |
| Almatica Pharma LLCSertraline Hcl | $111 | $46362 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 95th percentile of 679 psychiatric/mental health providers in Connecticut.
Other psychiatric/mental health in Danbury
- Donna DraperDanbury$19K
- Margaret ScaliaDanbury$8K
- Gregory GuionDanbury$6K
- Allison HayesDanbury$4K
- Cristina MeehanNew Britain$224K
- Samantha MrazBridgeport$87K
- Philip FrickManchester$31K
- Gia SantoroWest Haven$25K
- Hui HuNorwich$19K
- Patrick GagnonMilford$15K
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.