Brian Lee, MD
Internal Medicine · Las Vegas, NVNPI 1881768596
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 130 payments — averaging $18.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$455
- Pfizer$315
- Novo Nordisk$252
- AstraZeneca$155
- Mannkind Corporation$126
- Dexcom, Inc.$100
- plus $991 from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,394100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 21 | $455 |
| Pfizer | 17 | $315 |
| Novo Nordisk | 13 | $252 |
| AstraZeneca | 10 | $155 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 8 | $126 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 6 | $100 |
| Amgen | 4 | $94 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $89 |
| Bayer | 5 | $87 |
| Abbott | 4 | $79 |
| Orexo US, Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $43 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $43 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $41 |
| Merck | 3 | $40 |
| Novartis | 2 | $37 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $35 |
| GSK | 2 | $32 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $23 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $18 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $13 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $12 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
How this compares
$2,394 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,071 internal medicine providers in Nevada.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 50 | $66,225 |
| EliquisApixaban | 55 | $58,800 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 36 | $41,181 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 18 | $30,061 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 18 | $23,193 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 14 | $22,599 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 24 | $11,864 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 20 | $11,590 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 30 | $10,257 |
| Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate | 18 | $8,527 |
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 27 | $4,488 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 166 | $4,076 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 110 | $3,984 |
| Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 35 | $3,080 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 69 | $2,692 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $252 | $66,22550 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $315 | $58,80055 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $43 | $41,18136 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort | $155 | $40,31848 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Combivent Respimat | $12 | $31,12632 claims |
| GSKAnoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $32 | $23,45344 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess | $455 | $23,19318 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 1,071 internal medicine providers in Nevada.
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- Roger EstevezLas Vegas$3.7M
- Syed PervaizLas Vegas$3.1M
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- Kent SwaineLas Vegas$1.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.