Joe Lee, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Arcadia, CANPI 1437313095
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $325,875 of the $485,796 with a category attached, or 67.1%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spineart SA at 40.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $103,948 and has fallen 74.1% since, to $26,875 in 2025.
Across 169 payments — averaging $2874.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spineart SA$194K
- Choice Spine, LLC$175K
- Spineart USA Inc$103K
- Integrity Implants Inc.$7K
- Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.$5K
- Boston Scientific$451
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$325,87567%
- Consulting fees$74,45715%
- Travel & lodging$78,09416%
- Food & beverage$7,3702%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spineart SA | 32 | $194,177 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 33 | $175,075 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 50 | $102,969 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 15 | $6,922 |
| Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $5,000 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $451 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $365 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $151 |
| Gilead | 1 | $125 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $124 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $53 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus | 4 | $50 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Clariance, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Boomerang$134,867
- Tiger Shark C$96,672
- PERLA C$51,392
- TIGERSHARK C$47,571
- JULIET Ti OL - POSTERIOR Ti CAGES$31,730
- Perla TL$27,532
- SCARLET AL-T - SECURED LUMBAR ANTERIOR CAGE$25,336
- Juliet PO$24,427
- Juliet OL$24,427
- VEO Lateral Interbody Fusion System$21,051
- ROMEO 2 - CROSSLINK$19,550
- Juliet Ti PO$14,023
- JULIET LL - HYPERLORDOTIC LATERAL CAGE TI-LIFE$12,640
- Juliet Ti OL$12,589
- PERLA TL - CORTICAL SCREW$12,402
- Thunderbolt Minimally Invasive Pedicle Screw Systems$6,323
- FlareHawk$4,897
- Scarlet AL-T$4,318
- Stratofuse$3,104
- Blackhawk Cervical Spacer System$2,909
How this compares
$485,796 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 765 | $3,767 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 338 | $3,328 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 161 | $2,472 |
| Celecoxib | 72 | $1,679 |
| Lidocaine | 13 | $1,011 |
| Calcitonin-SalmonCalcitonin,salmon,synthetic | 16 | $834 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 31 | $643 |
| Methylprednisolone | 116 | $640 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 107 | $602 |
| Pregabalin | 55 | $516 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 113 | $262 |
| Meloxicam | 110 | $170 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 13 | $154 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 17 | $66 |
| Ibuprofen | 11 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Arcadia
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$56.8M
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.3M
- Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
- Babak Barcohanavan Nuys$2.9M
- Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$2.9M
- Sanjay KhuranaMarina del Rey$2.3M
- Neville AlleyneOceanside$2.2M
- Rick DelamarterSanta Monica$2.2M
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.