Donald Lee, MD
Hand Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1346337482
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $531,128 of the $545,631 with a category attached, or 97.3%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 97.4% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among hand surgery clinicians in TN 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 89 payments — averaging $6130.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$531K
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$13K
- Pharmaceutical Business Consultants Limited$400
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$137
- Axogen$129
- Bone Support Inc.$96
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$531,12897%
- Consulting fees$10,9802%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4000%
- Travel & lodging$1,6830%
- Food & beverage$1,2970%
- Education$1430%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 65 | $531,385 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 20 | $13,485 |
| Pharmaceutical Business Consultants Limited | 1 | $400 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Axogen | 1 | $129 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $96 |
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.
- Alps Plates and Instruments$194,544
- NCB$160,533
- NexGen$97,348
- A.L.P.S.$51,825
- XIAFLEX$12,889
- DVR Crosslock Plates/Screws/Pegs$12,159
- DVR Anatomic Kickstand$11,046
- Explor$2,594
- Wristloc$1,051
- Comprehensive Reverse$141
- Restrata Wound Matrix$137
- Alps Hand$116
How this compares
$545,631 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 60 hand surgery providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 99 | $269 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Nashville
- Mihir DesaiNashville$110K
- Gleb MedvedevNashville$60K
- Todd RubinNashville$39K
- Jed MaslowNashville$29K
- Jane SiegelNashville$22K
- Michael VaughnNashville$13K
- Adam CochranNashville$8K
- Shaan PatelNashville$5K
- William MeltonNashville$5K
- Samuel CrosbyNashville$4K
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.