James Lee, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Detroit, MINPI 1124261821
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $43,000 of the $57,571 with a category attached, or 74.7%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 59.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $36,215, more than ten times the $1,783 reported in 2019. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in MI 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 113 payments — averaging $509.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$34K
- Abbott$23K
- Boston Scientific$434
- Philips North America LLC$69
- Heartflow, Inc.$34
- Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.$23
Across 3 payments — averaging $5517.67 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.
- Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.$17K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$43,00075%
- Travel & lodging$10,43718%
- Food & beverage$4,1337%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 52 | $34,196 |
| Abbott | 50 | $22,814 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $434 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $69 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 3 | $34 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
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.
- EVOQUE$20,318
- AMPLATZER AMULET$11,512
- PASCAL$9,168
- AMPLATZER$1,268
- MitraClip$928
- AMPLATZER Occluders$188
- NAVITOR$172
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$161
- PORTICO$139
- WATCHMAN Access System$111
How this compares
$57,571 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 760 cardiovascular disease providers in Michigan.
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 cardiovascular disease in Detroit
- Pedro Villablanca SpinettoDetroit$620K
- Wayne WeaverDetroit$340K
- Brian OneillDetroit$250K
- Karthikeyan AnanthasubramaniamDetroit$112K
- Gerald KoenigDetroit$96K
- David LanfearDetroit$82K
- Celeste WilliamsDetroit$70K
- Mahir ElderDetroit$68K
- Cori RussellDetroit$67K
- Pedro Engel GonzalezDetroit$66K
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.