Susan Little
Internal Medicine · San Diego, CANPI 1033134572
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $93,855 of the $95,234 with a category attached, or 98.6%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Gilead. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $43,028 and has fallen 88.7% since, to $4,868 in 2023. Among internal medicine 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 24 payments — averaging $3968.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$95K
Across 39 payments — averaging $37,485 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.
- Gilead$1.4M
- Cue Health Inc.$9K
- Pfizer$4K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$93,85599%
- Travel & lodging$9271%
- Food & beverage$4520%
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 24 | $95,234 |
How this compares
$95,234 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
- 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.