Chong Lee, MD
Neurological Surgery · Seattle, WANPI 1548272271
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $18,185 of the $25,460 with a category attached, or 71.4%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 33.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $12,463, 5.5 times the $2,282 reported in 2019.
Across 159 payments — averaging $160.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$9K
- Medtronic$8K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$5K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$1K
- Stryker$222
- plus $311 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$18,18571%
- Food & beverage$7,27529%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 62 | $8,620 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 29 | $7,928 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 12 | $5,207 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 40 | $1,983 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 7 | $1,189 |
| Stryker | 4 | $222 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 1 | $81 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $48 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $42 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$6,220
- Velys$4,317
- XLIF$4,029
- RISE-L$1,170
- Shoreline$933
- Mariner$933
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$902
- Teligen$815
- Atoll$455
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$453
- SYMPHONY$379
- ALIF$317
- Excelsius - GPS$236
- OsteoStrand$197
- Ballast$197
- ALTERA$174
- VERTEX$156
- RISE$151
- Strand Plus$150
- O-ARM$142
How this compares
$25,460 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 175 neurological surgery providers in Washington.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Levetiracetam | 13 | $138 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Seattle
- Rod OskouianSeattle$2.4M
- Christoph HofstetterSeattle$768K
- Stephen MonteithSeattle$151K
- Jean-Christophe LevequeSeattle$120K
- Vijay YanamadalaSeattle$85K
- Hoan Vu TranSeattle$78K
- Martin RutkowskiSeattle$62K
- Bailey ZampellaSeattle$38K
- Melanie WalkerSeattle$38K
- Elias EliasSeattle$35K
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.