Susan Buchbinder
Internal Medicine · San Francisco, CANPI 1629183066
Payments from drug & device makers
$460,647in general payments, 2019–2025
Across 89 payments — averaging $5175.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$347K
- GSK$66K
- Gilead$48K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,31854%
- Travel & lodging$1,38933%
- Food & beverage$56613%
General payments by program year
19
24
25
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.
How this compares
$460,647 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in San Francisco
- Rahul AggarwalSan Francisco$24M
- Thomas MartinSan Francisco$13.7M
- Peter HuntSan Francisco$9.8M
- Diane HavlirSan Francisco$8.4M
- Sandy WongSan Francisco$6.6M
- Nina ShahSan Francisco$5.4M
- Katy TsaiSan Francisco$3.8M
- Riley BoveSan Francisco$3.6M
- Jacob LalezariSan Francisco$3.3M
- Flavio VincentiSan Francisco$2.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.