Francis Lee, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · New Haven, CTNPI 1043240997
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (56.4%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. at 56.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $17,845 and has fallen 83.8% since, to $2,896 in 2025.
Across 70 payments — averaging $466.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$18K
- Amgen$7K
- Medtronic$3K
- Stryker$3K
- Zimmer Biomet$174
- Illuminoss Medical, Inc.$125
- plus $394 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,57520%
- Speaking & faculty fees$18,40056%
- Travel & lodging$5,40017%
- Food & beverage$2,2357%
- Education$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 10 | $18,350 |
| Amgen | 12 | $7,259 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 13 | $3,228 |
| Stryker | 20 | $3,091 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $174 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 2 | $125 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 6 | $124 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $75 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 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.
How this compares
$32,621 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 273 orthopaedic surgery providers in Connecticut.
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 orthopaedic surgery in New Haven
- Peter WhangNew Haven$1.8M
- David FrumbergNew Haven$288K
- Michael LeslieNew Haven$85K
- Lee RubinNew Haven$72K
- John FulkersonNew Haven$67K
- Kristaps KeggiNew Haven$52K
- Daniel WizniaNew Haven$44K
- Dominick TuasonNew Haven$40K
- Ilda MolloyNew Haven$37K
- Michael MedveckyNew Haven$33K
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.