Joseph Lee, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Tarrytown, NYNPI 1124289780
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $101,314 of the $126,563 with a category attached, or 80.1%. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Cerapedics Inc. at 28.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $46,603, 2.1 times the $21,749 reported in 2019.
Across 275 payments — averaging $460.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cerapedics Inc.$36K
- Stryker$29K
- Globus Medical$26K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$25K
- The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education$5K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- plus $4K from 21 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $2000.00 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.
- Tyber Medical, LLC$2K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,8261%
- Consulting fees$101,31480%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,4003%
- Travel & lodging$9,0717%
- Food & beverage$10,6898%
- Education$2630%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cerapedics Inc. | 40 | $35,578 |
| Stryker | 22 | $29,112 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 89 | $25,717 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 18 | $25,405 |
| The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education | 14 | $4,833 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 48 | $1,468 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 6 | $1,342 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $384 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $328 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $307 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $275 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $268 |
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 3 | $265 |
| DJO, LLC | 5 | $235 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $198 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 2 | $149 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $100 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $65 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 1 | $63 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Axogen | 1 | $20 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Abbott | 1 | $16 |
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.
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$35,132
- MOUNTAINEER$13,844
- SYMPHONY$13,052
- CONDUIT$11,112
- VIPER$11,112
- SERRATO$10,000
- Anthem$9,775
- TRITANIUM$7,746
- N/A$5,870
- CASCADIA$5,700
- XLIF$5,513
- MANTIS$4,550
- EVEREST XT$4,000
- ALTERA$3,862
- LATERAL ACCESS SPINAL SYSTEM$3,400
- RISE$3,400
- ES2$2,000
- XIA$2,000
- MOJAVE$1,700
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,161
How this compares
$126,563 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.
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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 | 66 | $662 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 31 | $418 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 52 | $232 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 19 | $167 |
| Methocarbamol | 12 | $97 |
| Meloxicam | 15 | $59 |
| Prednisone | 11 | $33 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 14 | $27 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Tarrytown
- Hansen YuanSyracuse$31.7M
- Frank SchwabNew York$5.1M
- Han KimNew York$3.9M
- Todd AlbertNew York$2.7M
- Jeffrey SpivakNew York$1.3M
- Aaron BucklandNew York$1M
- Seth NeubardtWhite Plains$902K
- Sheeraz QureshiNew York$828K
- Jeffrey GoldsteinNew York$765K
- Fabien BitanNew York$624K
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.