Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2023–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Christopher Hellekson

Psychiatry Missoula, MT Medical Doctor

NPI 1205369287 CMS profile 5691907

900 N Orange St Ste 202, Missoula, MT 59802

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General payments

$693

33 records reported · program years 2023–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2023–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Christopher Hellekson of Missoula, MT is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $693 across 33 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 65th percentile of Psychiatry profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

3 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $341 17
2024 General $164 8
2023 General $188 8

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Christopher Hellekson were reported at $341. 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 Christopher Hellekson Psychiatry median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $184 $59–$605 $163
2020 $0 $119 $36–$372 $114
2021 $0 $143 $43–$576 $132
2022 $0 $153 $50–$590 $149
2023 $188 $170 $56–$651 $160
2024 $164 $179 $57–$673 $164
2025 $341 $180 $58–$685 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2023–2025
  1. ITI, Inc. $151 8 payments
  2. AbbVie, Inc. $123 7 payments
  3. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $104 5 payments
  4. Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. $91 5 payments
  5. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $74 2 payments
  6. Indivior Inc. $37 2 payments
  7. Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. $32 1 payment
  8. Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $30 1 payment
  9. Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $28 1 payment
  10. Lundbeck LLC $21 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2023–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $693 33 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2023–2025
  1. CAPLYTA Psychiatry $116 6 payments
  2. SPRAVATO $91 2 payments
  3. INGREZZA $91 5 payments
  4. VRAYLAR Neuroscience $84 5 payments
  5. Austedo XR $72 3 payments
  6. VRAYLAR Neuroscience $39 2 payments
  7. CAPLYTA Psychiatry $35 2 payments
  8. FANAPT $32 1 payment
  9. UZEDY $32 2 payments
  10. Auvelity $28 1 payment
  11. Other $71 4 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 · 28 drugs

Part D claims

915

Median for Psychiatry: 574

Drug cost

$101,129

Median for Psychiatry: $27,624

Branded share of claims

17.9%

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
Caplyta Lumateperone Tosylate Brand 35 $87,862
Trazodone Hcl Generic 95 $1,277
Fluoxetine Hcl Generic 40 $1,105
Sertraline Hcl Generic 39 $1,082
Duloxetine Hcl Generic 79 $1,021
Mirtazapine Generic 88 $1,013
Bupropion Xl Bupropion Hcl Brand 42 $946
Perphenazine Generic 23 $616
Desvenlafaxine Succinate Er Desvenlafaxine Succinate Brand 30 $581
Lurasidone Hcl Generic 12 $571

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 28 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 · 13 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$26,181

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

75

Average age 64

Services billed

347

39 women, 36 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
Depression 71%
High blood pressure 53%
Arthritis 44%
Diabetes 28%
Heart failure 20%
Chronic kidney disease 20%
COPD 20%
Alzheimer's or dementia 17%

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
CAPLYTA
  • ITI, Inc. $55
$55 35 —
INGREZZA
  • Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. $39
$39 — —
VRAYLAR
  • AbbVie, Inc. $39
$39 — —
SPRAVATO
  • Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $30
$30 — —

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

33 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

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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