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

Godehard Oepen

Psychiatry Birmingham, AL Medical Doctor

NPI 1508811597 CMS profile 68137

2868 Acton Road, Birmingham, AL 35243

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General payments

$515,834

842 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, Godehard Oepen of Birmingham, AL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $515,834 across 842 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 99th 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 $10,902 10
2024 General $91,865 101
2023 General $114,873 177
2022 General $63,804 153
2021 General $80,119 120
2020 General $36,872 100
2019 General $117,400 181

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Godehard Oepen were reported at $10,902. 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 Godehard Oepen Psychiatry median Middle half National median
2019 $117,400 $184 $59–$605 $163
2020 $36,872 $119 $36–$372 $114
2021 $80,119 $143 $43–$576 $132
2022 $63,804 $153 $50–$590 $149
2023 $114,873 $170 $56–$651 $160
2024 $91,865 $179 $57–$673 $164
2025 $10,902 $180 $58–$685 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $143,068 197 payments
  2. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $117,181 152 payments
  3. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $71,602 100 payments
  4. Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $58,627 56 payments
  5. Allergan Inc. $47,274 79 payments
  6. Alkermes, Inc. $46,476 69 payments
  7. Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $18,087 34 payments
  8. Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. $9,370 13 payments
  9. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $1,003 26 payments
  10. ITI, Inc. $897 44 payments
  11. Other $2,248 72 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 $411,617 177 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $53,938 16 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $34,717 153 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $15,311 492 payments
  5. Education $251 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. VRAYLAR Neuroscience $141,559 196 payments
  2. AUSTEDO $82,367 106 payments
  3. Auvelity $58,627 56 payments
  4. VRAYLAR Neuroscience $48,783 80 payments
  5. LYBALVI Cns $45,253 42 payments
  6. LYBALVI Cns $45,227 41 payments
  7. LYBALVI Cns $44,967 29 payments
  8. LYBALVI Cns $44,967 29 payments
  9. REXULTI $41,657 75 payments
  10. Austedo XR $34,534 39 payments
  11. Other $71,196 445 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 · 53 drugs

Part D claims

3,322

Median for Psychiatry: 574

Drug cost

$347,792

Median for Psychiatry: $27,624

Branded share of claims

22.5%

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 26 $172,921
Trintellix Vortioxetine Hydrobromide Brand 126 $61,877
Vraylar Cariprazine Hcl Brand 33 $48,805
Aripiprazole Generic 188 $9,601
Belsomra Suvorexant Brand 12 $6,328
Bupropion Xl Bupropion Hcl Brand 270 $5,284
Lurasidone Hcl Generic 39 $4,380
Trazodone Hcl Generic 257 $3,659
Dextroamphetamine Sulfate Generic 11 $3,173
Quetiapine Fumarate Generic 149 $2,289

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 53 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 · 5 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$15,214

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

52

Average age 66

Services billed

251

37 women, 15 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 75%
High blood pressure 60%
Arthritis 56%
Chronic kidney disease 33%
Diabetes 23%
COPD 21%

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

First 5 of 8 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
Auvelity
  • Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $44,900
$44,900 — —
Austedo XR
  • Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $19,729
$19,729 26 —
VRAYLAR
  • AbbVie, Inc. $17,854
$17,854 33 —
FANAPT
  • Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. $9,206
$9,206 — —
REXULTI
  • Lundbeck LLC $51
$51 — —

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.

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Records

842 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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