Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Ben Hunter

Psychiatry Brookhaven, GA Medical Doctor

NPI 1235574930 CMS profile 654981

1961 N Druid Hills Rd Ne, Brookhaven, GA 30329

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General payments

$498,699

581 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$321,317 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2024–2025

Through program year 2025, Ben Hunter of Brookhaven, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $498,699 across 581 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $321,317 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Psychiatry profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $196,033 231
2024 General $143,515 150
2023 General $124,665 146
2022 General $27,713 48
2021 General $6,752 5
2019 General $21 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Ben Hunter
  • Psychiatry median
  • Middle half of Psychiatry
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Ben Hunter were reported at $196,033. Among 14,155 Psychiatry profiles paid that year, the median was $180 and the middle half received between $58 and $685.

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Year Ben Hunter Psychiatry median Middle half National median
2019 $21 $184 $59–$605 $163
2020 $0 $119 $36–$372 $114
2021 $6,752 $143 $43–$576 $132
2022 $27,713 $153 $50–$590 $149
2023 $124,665 $170 $56–$651 $160
2024 $143,515 $179 $57–$673 $164
2025 $196,033 $180 $58–$685 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $243,337 272 payments
  2. Alkermes, Inc. $228,250 277 payments
  3. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $26,646 26 payments
  4. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $284 3 payments
  5. LivaNova USA, Inc. $112 1 payment
  6. AbbVie, Inc. $38 1 payment
  7. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $31 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $205,066 80 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $129,428 83 payments
  3. Honoraria $107,750 38 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $46,580 227 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $9,875 153 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Auvelity $243,337 272 payments
  2. LYBALVI Cns $228,241 276 payments
  3. LYBALVI Cns $228,066 271 payments
  4. LYBALVI Cns $228,066 271 payments
  5. LYBALVI Cns $228,066 271 payments
  6. COBENFY $17,178 25 payments
  7. SPRAVATO $284 3 payments
  8. ARISTADA Cns $175 5 payments
  9. ARISTADA Cns $175 5 payments
  10. ARISTADA Cns $175 5 payments
  11. Other $388 9 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Records

581 reported

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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