Christopher Lee
Sports Medicine · Burbank, CANPI 1053512558
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $68,782 of the $86,009 with a category attached, or 80.0%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 61.5% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $27,141 and has fallen 82.3% since, to $4,804 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 85 payments — averaging $1011.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$53K
- Linvatec Corporation$20K
- Vericel Corporation$5K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$4K
- Synthes USA Products LLC$1K
- Micromed Inc$1K
- plus $2K from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$68,78280%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,8009%
- Travel & lodging$5,4806%
- Food & beverage$2,5153%
- Education$1,4312%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 25 | $52,902 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 23 | $19,797 |
| Vericel Corporation | 10 | $4,857 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 2 | $3,590 |
| Synthes USA Products LLC | 6 | $1,447 |
| Micromed Inc | 1 | $1,431 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $843 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $446 |
| Stryker | 5 | $382 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $160 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $114 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $40 |
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.
- TRUMATCH$46,801
- GLOBAL$46,801
- LINVATEC SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY$14,086
- LCP$5,984
- MACI$4,754
- BioBrace 23mm$3,500
- LCP PLATES & SCREWS$2,029
- LINVATEC KNEE PRESERVATION SYSTEM$1,647
- BIOLOX DELTA$885
- NAVIO$479
- ALLOGRAFT TISSUE$343
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$280
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$280
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$280
- EVOS$132
- LIVATEC KNEE PRESERVATION SYSTEM$114
- TACTOSET$102
- BME NITINOL CONTINUOUS COMPRESSION IMPLANTS$102
How this compares
$86,009 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 662 sports medicine providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 22 | $5,698 |
| Cephalexin | 77 | $990 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 33 | $498 |
| Meloxicam | 163 | $475 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 46 | $327 |
| Celecoxib | 19 | $278 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $126 |
| Methylprednisolone | 16 | $85 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 29 | $48 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 12 | $47 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $114 | $5,69822 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 662 sports medicine providers in California.
Other sports medicine in Burbank
- Stephan YacoubianBurbank$1M
- Neal ElattracheLos Angeles$51M
- Nathaniel CohenLos Gatos$6.4M
- Thomas KnappSanta Monica$2.5M
- Michael FreehillStanford$1.6M
- Allan MishraMenlo Park$1.5M
- Heinz Hoeneckela Jolla$1.4M
- Seth ShermanStanford$1.1M
- Stephen Snydervan Nuys$922K
- Deryk JonesSan Carlos$915K
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.