Desirae McKee, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Lubbock, TXNPI 1316156284
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $35,997 of the $58,616 with a category attached, or 61.4%. Axogen accounts for 80.6% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $23,825 and has fallen 68.7% since, to $7,465 in 2025. Among surgery of the hand clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 101 payments — averaging $580.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axogen$47K
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Trimed, Inc.$2K
- Ensemble Orthopedics, Inc$1K
- Alafair Biosciences, Inc.$262
- Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.$160
- plus $405 from 8 others
Across 12 payments — averaging $7164.45 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Axogen$86K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,7005%
- Speaking & faculty fees$35,99761%
- Travel & lodging$9,59616%
- Food & beverage$6,12310%
- Education$4,0007%
- Entertainment$1990%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Axogen | 44 | $47,229 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 26 | $7,376 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 3 | $1,884 |
| Ensemble Orthopedics, Inc | 10 | $1,301 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $262 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $160 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $123 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $74 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $74 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $64 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $24 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $15 |
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.
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$40,135
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$40,135
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$25,019
- DAVINCI XI$4,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,954
- Ensemble CMC$1,082
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$350
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$350
- VersaWrap Tendon Protector$162
- REVERSE SHOULDER$123
- TEGSEDI$107
- VersaWrap$100
How this compares
$58,616 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 68 surgery of the hand providers in Texas.
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.
Other surgery of the hand in Lubbock
- Anceslo IdiculaLubbock$6K
- Stuart HilliardDenton$21K
- Harrison KayAustin$19K
- Suresh KoneruSan Antonio$17K
- Dustin RayDallas$15K
- Laurence WeiderDallas$13K
- Andrew ZhangDallas$11K
- James HovisArlington$11K
- James LinSpring$10K
- Michael JonesSan Antonio$9K
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.