Danielle Brazel
Hospitalist · San Diego, CANPI 1972130284
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,190 of the $8,206 with a category attached, or 87.6%. It is spread thinly across 52 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 7.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,440, more than ten times the $322 reported in 2022. Among hospitalist clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 235 payments — averaging $34.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi$643
- Johnson & Johnson$625
- Eko Health, Inc.$600
- AstraZeneca$506
- Lilly USA, LLC$448
- AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$392
- plus $5K from 46 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$6007%
- Food & beverage$7,19088%
- Education$4165%
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.
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
$8,206 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,469 hospitalist providers in California.
Other hospitalist in San Diego
- Omar AldaasSan Diego$24K
- Kinaan JavedSan Diego$5K
- Gregory SeymannSan Diego$5K
- Christina BohrSan Diego$5K
- Jennifer SchneiderSanta Rosa$1.2M
- Soham ShahBakersfield$844K
- Alpesh AminOrange$428K
- Retha GoodglickSanta Monica$156K
- Robert WachterSan Francisco$75K
- Steven WongTorrance$36K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.