Has Carl Lee, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,890 in general payments to Carl Lee, MD across 32 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Carl Lee, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Carl Lee, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Carl Lee, MD

Otolaryngology · Swansea, ILNPI 1649273319

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,142 of the $1,890 with a category attached, or 60.4%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Aerin Medical Inc. at 39.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $814 and has fallen 54.0% since, to $375 in 2025.

$1,890in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $59.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Aerin Medical Inc.$738
Stryker$402
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$232
Astellas Pharma US Inc$156
Sanofi$143
Intersect ENT, Inc.$88
plus $131 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$65034%
Food & beverage$1,14260%
Education$985%

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
Aerin Medical Inc.	5	$738
Stryker	8	$402
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	4	$232
Astellas Pharma US Inc	6	$156
Sanofi	2	$143
Intersect ENT, Inc.	2	$88
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$63
GSK	2	$47
Optinose US, Inc.	1	$22

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.

VIVAER STYLUS$650
RHINAER STYLUS$650
SCOPIS ENT$167
AUDION ET DILATION SYSTEM$167
CLARIFIX$167
XPRESS LOPROFILE$167
ENTELLUS - XPRESS ENT DILATION SYSTEM$131
DUPIXENT$128

How this compares

$1,890 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 390 otolaryngology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$201,555

Medicare patients

523

Services billed

1,463

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
Ipratropium Bromide	148	$4,480
Mometasone Furoate	27	$2,675
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	19	$2,258
Neomycin-Polymyxin-HcNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Hydrocort	24	$1,302
Fluticasone Propionate	73	$889
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil	13	$656
Cefdinir	30	$619
Ofloxacin	19	$500
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	47	$416
Famotidine	13	$395
Clotrimazole	13	$302
Pantoprazole Sodium	33	$296
Prednisone	60	$215
Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride	27	$213
CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil	14	$208

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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