James Lee, MD
Plastic Surgery · Mission Hills, CANPI 1225065659
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 132 payments — averaging $76.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- KCI USA, Inc.$2K
- Axogen$2K
- AbbVie$1K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Boston Scientific$928
- plus $2K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,60016%
- Travel & lodging$3,25232%
- Food & beverage$5,25752%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| KCI USA, Inc. | 10 | $1,828 |
| Axogen | 7 | $1,570 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 22 | $1,490 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 10 | $1,328 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $1,036 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $928 |
| Smith+Nephew | 13 | $523 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 9 | $320 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 6 | $186 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $140 |
| Solventum Corporation | 6 | $135 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $77 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $76 |
| Medline Industries LP | 3 | $63 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Stryker | 2 | $29 |
| Vertex | 1 | $28 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $27 |
| Gilead | 1 | $26 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Tesaro, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Merck | 1 | $23 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $22 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $20 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $10 |
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.
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$1,573
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$1,447
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$1,447
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$1,447
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$940
- MemoryGel Breast Implants$940
- MemoryShape Breast Implants$940
- SILTEX Breast Implants$940
- VAC VERAFLO$907
- PREVENA$800
- REVOLVE$645
- Emerge Push$489
- SURGIMEND$148
- ALLODERM$143
- AVVIGO$124
How this compares
$10,108 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 14 | $74 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 24 | $68 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Mission Hills
- Rahm NazeraliPalo Alto$1.6M
- Dennis AndersonSan Bernardino$1.3M
- Vipul DevBakersfield$1.1M
- Arash MomeniPalo Alto$919K
- Anshu GuptaEncinitas$682K
- Anne PeledSan Francisco$623K
- Salvatore PacellaSan Diego$517K
- Hani SbitanySan Francisco$510K
- John ApostolidesSan Diego$460K
- Garrett WirthNewport Beach$362K
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.