Byron Lee, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Palo Alto, CANPI 1700835584
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 279 payments — averaging $3089.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Research Incorporated$378K
- Medtronic$196K
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$171K
- Braemar Manufacturing, LLC$33K
- Boston Scientific$31K
- Cook Incorporated$23K
- plus $30K from 14 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $1606.50 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.
- Cook Research Incorporated$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$39,50015%
- Speaking & faculty fees$199,13575%
- Travel & lodging$19,5737%
- Food & beverage$8,8143%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Research Incorporated | 13 | $378,379 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 30 | $196,360 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 93 | $170,800 |
| Braemar Manufacturing, LLC | 1 | $33,000 |
| Boston Scientific | 25 | $30,915 |
| Cook Incorporated | 9 | $22,545 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 9 | $9,260 |
| Abbott | 59 | $6,654 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $6,000 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 10 | $5,058 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 9 | $938 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 7 | $501 |
| Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $500 |
| ZOLL Respicardia, Inc. | 1 | $409 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $297 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 3 | $112 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $105 |
| Novartis | 1 | $84 |
| Amgen | 1 | $50 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
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.
- LifeVest$169,516
- Cardiac Monitoring Suite$33,000
- Evolution$22,645
- Arctic Front$8,914
- (7999) SRC Undivided$6,000
- AVEIR$4,249
- OPTIMIZER$1,461
- Micra$724
- Siello$500
- Sotalol Hydrochloride$500
- remede System$409
- GALLANT$303
- Confirm Rx$292
- Carto 3$273
- EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System$268
- Quadra Assura CRT Defibrillator$181
- BioMonitor 2$141
- EMBLEM MRI S-ICD$130
- HeartSpan Steerable Sheath Introducer$126
- ENSITE$118
How this compares
$861,996 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 290 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 41 | $48,841 |
| Propafenone Hcl ErPropafenone Hcl | 16 | $4,610 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 31 | $1,695 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 18 | $1,198 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 60 | $806 |
| Cephalexin | 14 | $57 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Palo Alto
- David KrummenSan Diego$7.3M
- Jonathan DukesVentura$2.9M
- Shephal DoshiSanta Monica$2.9M
- Arash AryanaSacramento$2.4M
- Marco PerezStanford$2.1M
- Rahul DoshiLos Angeles$2M
- Mayer RashtianPasadena$1.8M
- Rajesh BankerNewport Beach$1.6M
- Edward GerstenfeldSan Francisco$1.5M
- Jonathan HsuSan Diego$1.4M
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.