Joseph Lee
Nephrology · Riverside, CANPI 1477599579
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 87 payments — averaging $1359.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$97K
- AstraZeneca$14K
- AbbVie$5K
- Novo Nordisk AS$750
- Gilead$455
- Amgen$427
- plus $442 from 7 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $425.00 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.
- Novartis$425
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,55075%
- Travel & lodging$8638%
- Food & beverage$2,04918%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 33 | $97,182 |
| AstraZeneca | 26 | $14,323 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $4,707 |
| Novo Nordisk AS | 1 | $750 |
| Gilead | 4 | $455 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 9 | $427 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 4 | $93 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $72 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 4 | $65 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
How this compares
$118,286 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,341 nephrology providers in California.
Other nephrology in Riverside
- Mohammed KhanRiverside$682K
- Anjay RastogiLos Angeles$6.3M
- Aamir JamalSan Dimas$5.5M
- Mohamed El-ShahawyLos Angeles$4.4M
- Kalpesh PatelCalabasas$3.6M
- Jehad HaggiagiMission Hills$3.6M
- Malvin YanSouth Gate$3.3M
- Sohan DuaNorthridge$3.2M
- Richard LafayetteStanford$3M
- Anant DesaiGranada Hills$2.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.