Chad Lee, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Alhambra, CANPI 1457694887
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 167 payments — averaging $23.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$941
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$302
- Boston Scientific$221
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$190
- Abbott$178
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,975100%
- Education$80%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 24 | $1,054 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 63 | $941 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 24 | $302 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $221 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $190 |
| Abbott | 4 | $178 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 2 | $166 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $158 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $139 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 3 | $131 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 6 | $121 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $94 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 5 | $68 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $45 |
| USWM, LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| SPR Therapeutics, 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.
- VECTRIS$770
- RELISTOR$221
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$147
- Omnia$139
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$124
How this compares
$3,983 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 188 interventional pain medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 1,542 | $25,198 |
| Pregabalin | 442 | $8,936 |
| Gabapentin | 825 | $7,808 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 356 | $6,265 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 197 | $5,194 |
| Lidocaine | 85 | $5,092 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 201 | $2,410 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 220 | $1,787 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 295 | $1,729 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 126 | $1,696 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 365 | $1,600 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 59 | $835 |
| Baclofen | 136 | $739 |
| Ibuprofen | 151 | $724 |
| Meloxicam | 209 | $622 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Alhambra
- Sheldon JordanSanta Monica$3.1M
- Ezekiel FinkBeverly Hills$2.3M
- Matthew DotyOroville$1.3M
- Tim LeierRancho Mirage$749K
- Pragya GuptaEscondido$647K
- Michael Verdolinla Mesa$563K
- Standiford HelmOrange$476K
- Patrick BuchananCamarillo$453K
- Roy BrownlowSan Diego$452K
- Andrew GermanovichRancho Mirage$408K
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.