Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

MERRILL TREMAYNE SPARAGO

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Psychiatry & Neurology Psychiatry

NPI
1811900475
CMS profile
173549
Location
LOS ANGELES, CA

General Payments · PY2018–2023

$8,495.45

  • Reported across 99 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2023

$6,703.19

11 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2023 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Consulting Fee $6,600.00 4
Food and Beverage $103.19 7

By paying entity

PY2023 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $6,621.72 8
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $29.64 1
Neuronetics, Inc. $28.17 1
Lundbeck LLC $23.66 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $545.74 28
PY2019 $593.19 30
PY2020 $102.41 5
PY2021 $359.48 18
PY2022 $191.44 7
PY2023 $6,703.19 11

Payment records · PY2023 (11)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2023 20182019202020212022 Record-level detail is published for PY2023; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $29.64 02/07/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1056189823 CMS
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $10.19 05/09/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 988759169 CMS
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $3.79 05/09/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 988759171 CMS
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $275.00 07/03/2023 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 988761839 CMS
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $275.00 07/03/2023 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 988761841 CMS
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $3,025.00 07/03/2023 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 988761843 CMS
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $0.80 09/21/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 988759165 CMS
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $6.94 09/21/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 988759167 CMS
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $3,025.00 10/23/2023 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 988761845 CMS
Lundbeck LLC $23.66 09/15/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1032369949 CMS
Neuronetics, Inc. $28.17 11/17/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 966807981 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2023_P01232026_01102026.csv

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