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

Charles Lester

Psychiatry Muskogee, OK Medical Doctor

NPI 1851357974 CMS profile 128982

333 S 38Th St Ste K, Muskogee, OK 74401

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General payments

$38,960

217 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Charles Lester of Muskogee, OK is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $38,960 across 217 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 97th percentile of Psychiatry profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $143 8
2024 General $117 6
2023 General $779 28
2022 General $2,298 34
2021 General $17,154 68
2020 General $7,252 30
2019 General $11,218 43

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Charles Lester were reported at $143. 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 Charles Lester Psychiatry median Middle half National median
2019 $11,218 $184 $59–$605 $163
2020 $7,252 $119 $36–$372 $114
2021 $17,154 $143 $43–$576 $132
2022 $2,298 $153 $50–$590 $149
2023 $779 $170 $56–$651 $160
2024 $117 $179 $57–$673 $164
2025 $143 $180 $58–$685 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $9,785 29 payments
  2. Allergan Inc. $9,178 33 payments
  3. AbbVie, Inc. $8,944 43 payments
  4. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. $8,903 12 payments
  5. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $442 4 payments
  6. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $352 18 payments
  7. ITI, Inc. $340 19 payments
  8. Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. $291 20 payments
  9. Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $225 8 payments
  10. Alkermes, Inc. $166 11 payments
  11. Other $334 20 payments

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 $34,649 23 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $2,827 178 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $1,194 11 payments
  4. Education $290 5 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. VRAYLAR Neuroscience $9,178 33 payments
  2. VRAYLAR Neuroscience $8,944 43 payments
  3. LATUDA $8,903 12 payments
  4. QELBREE $5,576 23 payments
  5. CAPLYTA $298 17 payments
  6. FANAPT $291 20 payments
  7. HETLIOZ $276 19 payments
  8. REXULTI $246 16 payments
  9. AUSTEDO $236 2 payments
  10. Auvelity $225 8 payments
  11. Other $1,259 76 payments

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

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 81 drugs

Part D claims

6,323

Median for Psychiatry: 574

Drug cost

$869,552

Median for Psychiatry: $27,624

Branded share of claims

18.6%

Median for Psychiatry: 17%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Austedo Deutetrabenazine Brand 21 $316,728
Vraylar Cariprazine Hcl Brand 65 $99,236
Auvelity Dextromethorphan Hbr/Bupropion Brand 56 $65,427
Fanapt Iloperidone Brand 16 $53,104
Rexulti Brexpiprazole Brand 20 $38,970
Belsomra Suvorexant Brand 81 $35,095
Lybalvi Olanzapine/Samidorphan Malate Brand 21 $34,486
Abilify Maintena Aripiprazole Brand 12 $30,409
Trintellix Vortioxetine Hydrobromide Brand 49 $26,662
Nuedexta Dextromethorphan Hbr/Quinidine Brand 13 $20,571

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 81 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 20,488 Part D prescribers listed as Psychiatry; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 9 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$96,446

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

233

Average age 70

Services billed

1,504

143 women, 90 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Depression 63%
Arthritis 47%
Diabetes 37%
Alzheimer's or dementia 37%
Chronic kidney disease 29%
Ischemic heart disease 25%
COPD 25%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

4 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
INGREZZA
  • Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. $35
$35 — —
CAPLYTA
  • ITI, Inc. $32
$32 — —
REXULTI
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $17
$17 20 —
COBENFY
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $17
$17 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

217 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

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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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