D Scott Upton, MD
Internal Medicine · San Diego, CANPI 1417994898
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 62 payments — averaging $22.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$189
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$149
- Antares Pharma, Inc.$147
- Pfizer$146
- Lilly USA, LLC$118
- AbbVie$84
- plus $591 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,37496%
- Education$504%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 8 | $189 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $147 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $146 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $118 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $84 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $63 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $60 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $50 |
| Abbott | 2 | $45 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $41 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $32 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $28 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 1 | $27 |
| GSK | 1 | $22 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $21 |
| Amgen | 1 | $20 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $19 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 1 | $14 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $13 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$1,424 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 60 | $62,743 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 30 | $35,756 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 27 | $32,261 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 34 | $32,102 |
| EliquisApixaban | 26 | $31,605 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 22 | $22,107 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 20 | $14,680 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 12 | $11,515 |
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 13 | $9,798 |
| MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate | 14 | $5,513 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 47 | $2,969 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 189 | $2,227 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 209 | $2,137 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 49 | $1,791 |
| Gabapentin | 80 | $1,488 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $118 | $64,36361 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $41 | $62,74360 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $15 | $35,75630 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $146 | $31,60526 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $84 | $2,96947 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in San Diego
- Donald BrandonSan Diego$34M
- Elaine WatkinsSan Diego$11.3M
- James ChenSan Diego$2.9M
- Rita StarrittSan Diego$2.6M
- Hatim HusainSan Diego$2.6M
- Gary FiresteinSan Diego$2.6M
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Joel NeutelTustin$34.9M
- William TownerLos Angeles$27.4M
- Rahul AggarwalSan Francisco$24M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.