John Lee, MD
Neurological Surgery · Philadelphia, PANPI 1033152145
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (46.7%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Elekta, Inc. at 36.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $2,390 and has fallen 84.9% since, to $361 in 2025.
Across 47 payments — averaging $158.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Elekta, Inc.$3K
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$869
- Acclarent, Inc$608
- Novocure Inc.$260
- Zap Surgical Systems, Inc.$219
- plus $1K from 17 others
Across 13 payments — averaging $16,240 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.
- NX Development Corp.$96K
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$62K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$29K
- Insightec,ltd$19K
- Stryker$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,50034%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5007%
- Travel & lodging$83211%
- Food & beverage$3,46947%
- Entertainment$701%
- Other$651%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Elekta, Inc. | 6 | $2,706 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 2 | $1,500 |
| Stryker | 8 | $869 |
| Acclarent, Inc | 5 | $608 |
| Novocure Inc. | 3 | $260 |
| Zap Surgical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $219 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $157 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 1 | $157 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $133 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $99 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $82 |
| NSK America Corporation | 1 | $70 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $69 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $65 |
| Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $38 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $31 |
| NX Development Corp. | 1 | $14 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $11 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $11 |
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.
- LEKSELL GAMMA KNIFE ICON$1,604
- KINEVO$1,500
- LEKSELL GAMMA KNIFE PERFEXION$1,500
- LEKSELL GAMMAPLAN$1,500
- Leksell Stereotactic System$1,500
- LEKSELL VANTAGE STEREOTACTIC SYSTEM$1,500
- ELEKTA MEDICAL LINEAR ACCELERATOR$832
- TruDi Nav Cable$589
- CORE$334
- Icon$220
- Perfection$220
- Zap-X$175
- TRITANIUM$167
- Other - Miscellaneous$157
- GammaTile$157
- Olympus ENT Instruments$150
- Acclarent Aera$133
- Inspira Air$133
- RELIEVA SPINPLUS NAV$133
- TruDi Probe$133
How this compares
$7,436 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 390 neurological surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 neurological surgery in Philadelphia
- Amer SamdaniPhiladelphia$4.4M
- Brian JankowitzPhiladelphia$823K
- Joshua HellerPhiladelphia$519K
- Srinivas PrasadPhiladelphia$513K
- Chengyuan WuPhiladelphia$377K
- John ShinPhiladelphia$306K
- Omar ChoudhriPhiladelphia$304K
- Pascal JabbourPhiladelphia$198K
- Casey HalpernPhiladelphia$186K
- Steven FulopPhiladelphia$140K
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.