Donald Brandon
Internal Medicine · San Diego, CANPI 1740272467
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 3,477 payments — averaging $9778.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- 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 $3.8M from 14 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $14,619 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.
- Nielsen Biosciences, Inc.$89K
- Pfizer$6K
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$4K
- Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$3K
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 | 415 | $17,299,750 |
| Biontech SE | 268 | $6,302,279 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 109 | $2,461,072 |
| Novavax Inc | 70 | $1,501,091 |
| Merck | 141 | $1,338,964 |
| Bavarian Nordic A/s | 69 | $1,301,170 |
| Emergent Biosolutions Inc. | 1,229 | $1,129,663 |
| Modernatx, Inc. | 32 | $1,092,389 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 396 | $410,424 |
| GSK | 42 | $378,135 |
| Regeneron | 29 | $238,203 |
| Novo Nordisk AS | 607 | $148,352 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 38 | $144,962 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $100,784 |
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 4 | $53,783 |
| Sanofi US Services Inc. | 3 | $40,279 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 12 | $27,325 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | 3 | $14,619 |
| Eli Lilly | 3 | $11,883 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $5,293 |
How this compares
$34,000,421 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in San Diego
- 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
- Masoud AzizadNorthridge$21.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.