Elaine Watkins
Internal Medicine · San Diego, CANPI 1225019557
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,720 of the $3,790 with a category attached, or 98.1%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, GSK.
Across 14 payments — averaging $270.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$4K
Across 146 payments — averaging $77,610 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.
- GSK$5.5M
- Amgen$1.8M
- Merck$1.1M
- Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$858K
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$750K
- Regeneron$583K
- plus $701K from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,72098%
- Food & beverage$702%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 14 | $3,790 |
How this compares
$3,790 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
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.