Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister, DO

  • Texarkana, AR
  • Psychiatrist
NPI1548311442PAC ID3072892884
Medicare services, 2024
1,209
Medicare patients, 2024
182
Part D claims, 2024
3,069
MIPS score, 2024
23
Industry payments
$5,394
Practice address
2904 Arkansas Boulevard, Texarkana, AR 71854
Practice phone
Call (870) 773-4655
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Primary practice

Southwest Arkansas Counseling and Mental Health Center - Texarkana

Day Treatment Program (PHP) · Texarkana, Arkansas

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Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister is a psychiatrist in Texarkana, Arkansas

Dr. Brister practices at Southwest Arkansas Counseling and Mental Health Center - Texarkana in Texarkana, Arkansas.

Dr. Brister's NPI, 1548311442, was assigned on January 16, 2007. Dr. Brister graduated from TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine in 2006. Dr. Brister holds Arkansas license E-9670.

NPI and contact details
Medicare PAC ID
3072892884
NPI enumeration date
January 16, 2007
NPI status
Active
Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes
Offers telehealth
Yes
Practice phone
(870) 773-4655
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Sex
Female
Estimated age
46
Medical school graduation
2006

Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; Dmand AI Affiliation Data; and Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS)

Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister practices at Southwest Arkansas Counseling and Mental Health Center - Texarkana in Texarkana, Arkansas

Dr. Brister's primary practice is Southwest Arkansas Counseling and Mental Health Center - Texarkana, at 2904 Arkansas Boulevard, Texarkana, AR 71854. The practice phone is (870) 773-4655.

  • Southwest Arkansas Counseling and Mental Health Center - Texarkana
    2904 Arkansas Boulevard, Texarkana, AR 71854Phone(870) 773-4655

Source: Dmand AI Affiliation Data

Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister is affiliated with 2 sites of care and 2 medical groups

Dr. Brister's primary practice is Southwest Arkansas Counseling and Mental Health Center - Texarkana in Texarkana, Arkansas. The medical group on file is Southwest Arkansas Counseling and Mental Health Center. Dmand AI also links Dr. Brister to 1 more group practice or clinic and 1 medical group, each named with a free account. Dr. Brister's employer is on file too: a behavioral health center.

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Dmand AI tracks the EHR system at Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister's practice

Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Brister practices, 2 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

EHR by site
SiteEHR vendor and product
Southwest Arkansas Counseling and Mental Health Center - TexarkanaAvailable with a free account
+1 more site and 1 medical groupAvailable with a free account

Source: Dmand AI Technology Install Data

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Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister is one of 240 psychiatrists in Arkansas

Psychiatry is Dr. Brister's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 2084P0800X. Dmand AI has Dr. Brister's licenses on file in 2 states: Arkansas and Indiana.

Specialties and state licenses

  • Psychiatry, ArkansasPrimaryLicense E-9670 · taxonomy 2084P0800X
  • Indiana licenseLicense 02003361A

Clinical focus

Dmand AI lists ADHD, anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, drug use disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities and schizophrenia among the conditions Dr. Brister treats.

Psychiatrists near Dr. Brister

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240psychiatrists in Arkansas
3psychiatrists in Texarkana

Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks

Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister billed Medicare for 1,209 services in 2024

CMS data shows 1,209 Medicare services from Dr. Brister across 6 procedure codes in 2024, for 182 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $52,449 for them. Every service was in an office.

Medicare services, 20241,209
Medicare patients182
Paid by Medicare$52,449
Procedure codes6

Dr. Brister's Medicare services by type, 2023 to 2024

  • 2023
  • 2024
Tests and treatments
2023: 3,2042024: 1,08266%
Office and hospital visits
2023: 1872024: 12732%

Dr. Brister compared with the Arkansas median for psychiatrists, 2024

  • Dr. Brister
  • Arkansas median
Medicare services
1,209vs 1567.8 times
Medicare patients
182vs 593.1 times
Part D claims
2,882vs 18715.4 times

Medians across 257 psychiatrists in Arkansas with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.

Dr. Brister's most billed Medicare procedure codes, 2024

CMS publishes codes billed for 11 or more Medicare patients. Each label is the code family; CPT descriptions are licensed by the AMA.

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Sources: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS), 2024 data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks

Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister treated 182 Medicare patients in 2024, average age 52

CMS counts 182 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Brister in 2024. The largest group is under 65, with 142 patients. 65% of them have mood disorders, and 53% have high blood pressure. 74% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 0.98, where 1.00 is the Medicare average.

Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Dr. Brister's median patient age at 55, with 62% women.

Medicare patients, 2024182
Average age52
Average risk score0.98
Also on Medicaid74%

Dr. Brister's Medicare patients by age, 2024

CMS leaves out age groups with fewer than 11 patients.

Dr. Brister's Medicare patients by sex, 2024

  • Women9150%
  • Men9150%

Chronic conditions among Dr. Brister's Medicare patients, 2024

  1. Mood disorders65%
  2. High blood pressure53%
  3. Anxiety50%
  4. Depression49%
  5. Schizophrenia and other psychoses41%
  6. High cholesterol35%
  7. Bipolar disorder32%
  8. Arthritis26%

Share of Medicare patients with each condition. A patient can have several.

Dr. Brister's patients across all payers

Dmand AI patient panel data covers Medicare, Medicaid and commercial patients.

Patient panel by age, all payers

Median age 55

Patient panel by sex, all payers

  • Women62%
  • Men38%

Sources: Dmand AI Patient Panel Data; and Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data

Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister wrote 3,069 Medicare Part D claims in 2024

In 2024, Dr. Brister wrote 3,069 Medicare Part D claims for 128 patients. 92% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 2,882 of them, across 57 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $542,141 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 3,798 claims across 66 drugs.

Part D claims, 20243,069
Drugs named by CMS57
Total drug cost$542,141
Part D patients128

Dr. Brister's Part D claims by kind of drug, 2024

  • Generic2,833 claims92%
  • Brand-name236 claims8%

Dr. Brister's most prescribed drugs by claims, 2024

CMS names a drug when it has 11 or more claims. Share is of the claims for drugs CMS names.

Drug classes CMS tracks in Dr. Brister's Part D claims, 2024

  • Antipsychotics, patients 65 and over6%189 of 3,069 claims

Share of all Part D claims for each drug class CMS reports on. Classes with no claims are left out.

Part D claims for drugs CMS names, 2023 to 2024

  • 2023
  • 2024
Claims for drugs CMS names
2023: 3,7982024: 2,88224%

Drugs named by CMS: 57 in 2024, 66 in 2023.

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Sources: Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider and Drug (CMS), 2024 data, released May 6, 2026; and Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data

Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister scored 23 out of 100 in Medicare's MIPS program for 2024

CMS publishes a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score of 23 out of 100 for Dr. Brister for performance year 2024, reported individually. Dr. Brister accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS lists Dr. Brister as offering telehealth.

Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes
Offers telehealth
Yes

Dr. Brister's MIPS scores, performance year 2024

  • 23of 100Final score
  • 0of 100Quality
  • 0of 100Improvement Activities
  • 77of 100Cost

Each score is out of 100. The final score weighs the categories CMS scored for this clinician.

Sources: Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS); and Clinician Public Reporting: Overall MIPS Performance (CMS), 2024 data, released September 10, 2026

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Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister received $5,394 in industry payments from 2016 to 2025

CMS Open Payments shows 399 general payments to Dr. Brister from 13 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2025. Food and beverage make up the largest share, 94% of the total. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. paid the most, $1,391.

General payments to Dr. Brister by program year, 2016 to 2025

General payments to Dr. Brister by kind, 2016 to 2025

$5.4Kin total
  • Food and beverage$5,06194%
  • Education$3336%

Companies that paid Dr. Brister the most, 2016 to 2025

Share is of all general payments to this clinician.

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Source: Open Payments (CMS), 2025 data, released July 7, 2026

Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister graduated from TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine

Dr. Brister graduated from TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine in 2006.

  1. Medical schoolTCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine

Source: Dmand AI Professional Profile Data

Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister accepts plans from 11 insurance carriers

Dr. Brister is in network with 11 carriers, including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Alliant Health Plans and HCSC. PPO plans come from the most carriers, 6. Check the plan with the practice before a visit.

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
  • Alliant Health Plans
  • HCSC
  • United Healthcare
  • Aetna
  • AR State Medicaid
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona
  • Cigna
  • +3 more carriersWith a free account

Plan types Dr. Brister accepts, by number of carriers

  1. PPO6
  2. HMO5
  3. Medicare2
  4. POS2
  5. Medicaid1

Source: Dmand AI Insurance Network Data

Sources for Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister's profile data

Sources for the data on this page
Data on this pageSource
NPI, name, sex, specialty and licensesNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Professional Profile Data
Practice locations and phoneDmand AI Affiliation Data
Primary practice, affiliations and health systemDmand AI Affiliation DataDmand AI Org Hierarchy Data
Medicare services and procedure codesMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
State medians for the same specialtyDmand AI Peer Benchmarks
Medicare patients and the all-payer patient panelDmand AI Patient Panel DataMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Part D prescribingMedicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider and Drug (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
MIPS scores, telehealth, assignment and procedure percentilesDoctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Clinician Public Reporting: Overall MIPS Performance (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Industry paymentsOpen Payments (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Training, board certification and membershipsDmand AI Professional Profile Data
Insurance carriers and plan typesDmand AI Insurance Network Data
EHR at each practice siteDmand AI Technology Install Data
Similar physiciansDmand AI Affiliation Data

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What is Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister's NPI number?

Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister's NPI number is 1548311442. It was assigned on January 16, 2007, and it is active in the NPI Registry.

What kind of doctor is Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister?

Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister is a psychiatrist in Texarkana, Arkansas. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is Psychiatry Physician (taxonomy code 2084P0800X).

Where does Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister practice?

Dr. Brister practices at 2904 Arkansas Boulevard, Texarkana, AR 71854. Dr. Brister's primary practice is Southwest Arkansas Counseling and Mental Health Center - Texarkana in Texarkana, Arkansas. Dmand AI also links Dr. Brister to 1 group practice or clinic and 1 medical group.

What is Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister's office phone number?

The practice phone on file for Dr. Brister is (870) 773-4655.

What is Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister's medical license number?

Dr. Brister holds Arkansas license E-9670, one of the licenses on file in 2 states.

Which states has Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister been licensed in?

Dmand AI has state licenses on file for Dr. Brister in Arkansas and Indiana.

What medical group is Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister part of?

Dr. Brister is linked to Southwest Arkansas Counseling and Mental Health Center. Dmand AI links Dr. Brister to 1 more medical group.

Does Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister accept Medicare?

Yes. CMS data shows Dr. Brister billed Medicare for 1,209 services in 2024, and Dr. Brister accepts Medicare assignment.

Does Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister offer telehealth?

Yes. The CMS Doctors and Clinicians file lists Dr. Brister as offering telehealth services.

What is Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister's MIPS score?

Dr. Brister's MIPS final score for performance year 2024 is 23 out of 100, reported individually.

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How many Medicare patients does Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister see?

CMS counts 182 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Brister in 2024, with an average age of 52.

What services does Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister bill to Medicare?

In 2024, Dr. Brister's most billed Medicare services were psychiatric service (90853), psychiatric service (90832) and psychiatric service (90837).

Where did Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister go to medical school?

Dr. Brister graduated from TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine in 2006.

What drugs does Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister prescribe most?

In 2024 Medicare Part D data, Dr. Brister's most prescribed drugs by claims were Trazodone HCl, Sertraline HCl and Quetiapine Fumarate.

Has Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister received payments from drug or device companies?

CMS Open Payments shows $5,394 in general payments to Dr. Brister from 13 companies from 2016 to 2025. The largest total came from Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.

How long has Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister been practicing?

Dr. Brister graduated from medical school in 2006, 20 years ago.

What insurance does Dr. Donna Cheryl Brister accept?

Dr. Brister is in network with 11 carriers, including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Alliant Health Plans and HCSC. PPO plans come from the most carriers, 6. Check the plan with the practice before a visit.

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