Susan Phillips
Pediatric Endocrinology · San Diego, CANPI 1588735336
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $7,090 of the $11,707 with a category attached, or 60.6%. Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. accounts for 74.6% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 112 payments — averaging $104.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$9K
- Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.$626
- Dexcom, Inc.$376
- Novo Nordisk$352
- AbbVie$221
- Insulet Corporation$220
- plus $1K from 17 others
Across 31 payments — averaging $2611.81 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.
- Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$81K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5254%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,09061%
- Travel & lodging$1,48013%
- Food & beverage$2,44821%
- Education$1641%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $8,734 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 6 | $626 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 18 | $376 |
| Novo Nordisk | 16 | $352 |
| AbbVie | 11 | $221 |
| Insulet Corporation | 12 | $220 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $205 |
| Eton Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $144 |
| Companion Medical, Inc. | 3 | $137 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $111 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $101 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $77 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $72 |
| BETA Bionics, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $48 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $43 |
| Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $22 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Soleno Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- t-slim insulin pump$525
- Alkindi$119
- KHINDIVI$119
- INCRELEX$119
- InPen$100
How this compares
$11,707 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 168 pediatric endocrinology providers in California.
Other pediatric endocrinology in San Diego
- Karen KleinSan Diego$195K
- Marcela Vargas TrujilloSan Diego$57K
- Ron NewfieldSan Diego$27K
- Michael GottschalkSan Diego$17K
- Maja MarinkovicSan Diego$5K
- Mary PattersonSan Diego$4K
- Jane KimSan Diego$3K
- Gnanagurdasan PrakasamSacramento$805K
- Swati ElchuriVentura$210K
- Francine KaufmanLos Angeles$184K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.