James Lee, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · West Orange, NJNPI 1952509820
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 96 payments — averaging $93.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$3K
- Stryker$2K
- Seapearl East, Inc$797
- Ortho Development Corporation$617
- Johnson & Johnson$331
- Encore Medical, LP$307
- plus $2K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1281%
- Travel & lodging$4,40149%
- Food & beverage$3,56640%
- Education$87210%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 17 | $2,678 |
| Stryker | 23 | $2,154 |
| Seapearl East, Inc | 2 | $797 |
| Ortho Development Corporation | 1 | $617 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $331 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $307 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $283 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $280 |
| Amgen | 19 | $276 |
| Rapid Medical Ltd | 1 | $189 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $128 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $125 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $53 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $38 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $28 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $20 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $15 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- GMK SPHERE$1,716
- MAKO$1,325
- BKS TriMax$1,234
- AMISTEM$872
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$841
- PRIMARY SHOULDER$589
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$280
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$280
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$228
- TIGERTRIEVER 17 REVASCULARIZATION DEVICE$189
- COMANECI 17$189
- INSPACE$172
- INSIGNIA$160
- SMR$150
- Physica$150
- ATTUNE$143
- Geminus$128
- Align$128
- IJS$128
- Implate$128
How this compares
$8,968 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 587 orthopaedic surgery providers in New Jersey.
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 | 46 | $114 |
| Ibuprofen | 14 | $86 |
| Gabapentin | 15 | $36 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in West Orange
- Scott KatzmanWest Orange$293K
- Richard RosaWest Orange$73K
- Michael KellyHackensack$9.7M
- Mark HartzbandParamus$9.4M
- Luke AustinSewell$4.3M
- Randal BetzLawrenceville$3M
- Kenneth MontgomeryMorristown$2.7M
- Zachary PostEgg Harbor Township$1.7M
- Gregg KleinParamus$1.6M
- Harlan LevineMontvale$1.5M
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.