Karl Lee
Internal Medicine · Daly City, CANPI 1093746703
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 434 payments — averaging $18.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Gilead$652
- Lilly USA, LLC$591
- Novo Nordisk$585
- Pfizer$543
- plus $3K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7,968100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 93 | $1,682 |
| AstraZeneca | 54 | $1,201 |
| Gilead | 38 | $652 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 33 | $591 |
| Novo Nordisk | 46 | $585 |
| Pfizer | 29 | $543 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 27 | $457 |
| Amgen | 14 | $318 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 20 | $269 |
| GSK | 11 | $269 |
| Merck | 13 | $223 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 12 | $208 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $201 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 8 | $165 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $151 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $104 |
| Bayer | 3 | $90 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $54 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 2 | $49 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| SNAP Diagnostics LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Kedrion Biopharma, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Novartis | 1 | $20 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$7,968 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in Daly City
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Joel NeutelTustin$34.9M
- Donald BrandonSan Diego$34M
- William TownerLos Angeles$27.4M
- Rahul AggarwalSan Francisco$24M
- Masoud AzizadNorthridge$21.1M
- Helen StaceyWalnut Creek$20.4M
- Rohit Loombala Jolla$15.1M
- Zeid KayaliColton$14.2M
- Alexandra DrakakiSanta Monica$14.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.