Donald Brandon
Internal Medicine · San Diego, CANPI 1740272467
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by gifts: $20 of the $20 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Pfizer. That places this record below the midpoint for internal medicine clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $147.
Across 1 payment — averaging $20.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$20
Across 3,483 payments — averaging $9791.20 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Pfizer$17.3M
- Biontech SE$6.3M
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$2.5M
- Novavax Inc$1.5M
- Merck$1.3M
- Bavarian Nordic A/s$1.3M
- plus $3.9M from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Gifts$20100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 1 | $20 |
How this compares
$20 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 17 | $16,411 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 15 | $8,466 |
| Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole | 15 | $5,402 |
| Nebivolol Hcl | 30 | $1,683 |
| Clonidine | 16 | $1,579 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 98 | $1,027 |
| Ezetimibe | 55 | $907 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 24 | $437 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 43 | $381 |
| Famotidine | 26 | $370 |
| Celecoxib | 14 | $368 |
| Eszopiclone | 16 | $367 |
| Gabapentin | 21 | $360 |
| Pregabalin | 16 | $355 |
| Olmesartan Medoxomil | 16 | $281 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in San Diego
- Hatim HusainSan Diego$2M
- Steven EdelmanSan Diego$863K
- Christian RamersSan Diego$675K
- Adam ZweigSan Diego$421K
- James BreitmeyerSan Diego$227K
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Tung NgoNewport Beach$4.9M
- Christian EversullStanford$2.9M
- Christian SandrockSacramento$2.1M
- Teck LingPalo Alto$1.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.