Cha Lee, MD
Family Medicine · Land O Lakes, FLNPI 1285743971
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 159 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 32 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $589 and has fallen 76.4% since, to $139 in 2025.
Across 159 payments — averaging $17.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$469
- AbbVie$416
- Lilly USA, LLC$289
- Pfizer$271
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$139
- Gilead$112
- plus $1K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,786100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 29 | $469 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 22 | $416 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 18 | $289 |
| Pfizer | 16 | $271 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| Gilead | 7 | $112 |
| GSK | 7 | $109 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $99 |
| Novartis | 6 | $98 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 6 | $98 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $73 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| Merck | 4 | $66 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $54 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $41 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $37 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 2 | $32 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $31 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Bayer | 1 | $19 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $19 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$2,786 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 7,282 family medicine providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 15 | $321 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 16 | $319 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 12 | $274 |
| Omeprazole | 11 | $204 |
| Losartan Potassium | 17 | $186 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 29 | $171 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 19 | $161 |
| Metformin Hcl | 25 | $132 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 42 | $124 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 23 | $123 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 11 | $118 |
| Prednisone | 23 | $103 |
| Lisinopril | 20 | $76 |
| Meloxicam | 14 | $62 |
| Alprazolam | 12 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Land O Lakes
- Noah LeeOakland Park$1.2M
- Angela RosselotBelle Isle$977K
- Richard LappOrlando$702K
- Hal BrownVero Beach$477K
- Lisa EvansBoca Raton$473K
- Giovana Rene CrooksBoca Raton$407K
- Edward BraunSt Petersburg$364K
- Samuel GreenleePensacola$235K
- Kevin FitzgeraldStuart$198K
- Louis KuritzkyGainesville$186K
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.