Gordon Lee, MD
Plastic Surgery · Palo Alto, CANPI 1326009572
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (49.1%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Integra Lifesciences Corporation at 32.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $13,693 and has fallen 70.7% since, to $4,006 in 2025. Among plastic surgery 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 173 payments — averaging $283.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$16K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$11K
- TEI Biosciences Inc$8K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$4K
- AbbVie$3K
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$2K
- plus $6K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,40013%
- Speaking & faculty fees$24,05049%
- Travel & lodging$9,22319%
- Food & beverage$9,30419%
- Education$130%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 23 | $15,783 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 7 | $10,596 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 10 | $8,184 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 32 | $4,380 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 30 | $2,695 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 3 | $1,790 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 9 | $1,258 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,102 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 19 | $826 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 3 | $388 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 8 | $360 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 2 | $326 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $243 |
| Stryker | 3 | $218 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $145 |
| Axogen | 2 | $129 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $74 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $67 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $49 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $36 |
| BD | 1 | $33 |
| Vioptix Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Osteomed 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.
- INTEGRA$15,132
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$10,400
- SURGIMEND$8,014
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$7,420
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$7,156
- IDRT$7,156
- FLOWABLE$7,156
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$2,804
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$2,717
- OviTex 2S$2,157
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$1,273
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$1,155
- REVOLVE$1,155
- PRIMATRIX$897
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$883
- MemoryGel Breast Implants$883
- MemoryShape Breast Implants$883
- SILTEX Breast Implants$883
- ADVANCED WOUND CARE$782
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$579
How this compares
$48,989 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 780 plastic surgery 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.
Other plastic surgery in Palo Alto
- Rahm NazeraliPalo Alto$1.5M
- Arash MomeniPalo Alto$836K
- Stephen SchendelPalo Alto$288K
- Michael VistnesPalo Alto$123K
- Subhro SenPalo Alto$105K
- Matthew MurphyPalo Alto$53K
- Sarah SoricePalo Alto$40K
- Vipul DevBakersfield$1.1M
- Anne PeledSan Francisco$570K
- Salvatore PacellaSan Diego$517K
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.