David Lee, MD
Neurosurgery · Hattiesburg, MSNPI 1316048911
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 301 payments — averaging $268.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Life Spine, Inc.$63K
- Abbott$9K
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Intelligent Implant Systems, LLC$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Alevio, LLC$247
- plus $669 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$62,92578%
- Consulting fees$2,0002%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,4105%
- Travel & lodging$1,5722%
- Food & beverage$10,03912%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Life Spine, Inc. | 13 | $62,958 |
| Abbott | 101 | $9,338 |
| Boston Scientific | 156 | $3,966 |
| Intelligent Implant Systems, LLC | 1 | $2,000 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 16 | $1,768 |
| Alevio, LLC | 2 | $247 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 1 | $180 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $115 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $47 |
| United Imaging Healthcare North America LLC | 1 | $42 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Vertex | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Aileron Expandable$35,653
- Aileron$9,084
- AILERON EXPANDABLE POSTERIOR FUSION SYSTEM$8,760
- Proclaim IPG$4,147
- MazorX - Renaissance$1,474
- PROCLAIM$1,031
- IonicRF Generator$490
- ETERNA$438
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$377
- SiCure$180
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$120
- Prospera$103
- Axium Sheath Braided DRG$101
How this compares
Too few neurosurgery providers in Mississippito place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 | 48 | $530 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 39 | $284 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 13 | $167 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 40 | $151 |
| Levofloxacin | 20 | $69 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 28 | $66 |
| Meloxicam | 11 | $18 |
| Famotidine | 29 | $8 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurosurgery in Hattiesburg
- Charles BrentHattiesburg$238
- Terry SmithBiloxi$11K
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.