Kendall Lee, MD
Neurological Surgery · Rochester, MNNPI 1275544066
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $1,879,955 of the $2,324,660 with a category attached, or 80.9%. Medtronic accounts for 99.9% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,321,238 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $451 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 44 payments — averaging $52,833 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2.3M
- Abbott$1K
- Boston Scientific$340
- Insightec,ltd$253
- Stryker$170
Across 54 payments — averaging $6983.34 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.
- Abbott$257K
- Cala Health, Inc.$112K
- Medtronic$8K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$441,09219%
- Travel & lodging$1,1960%
- Food & beverage$2,4160%
- Other$1,879,95581%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 22 | $2,322,637 |
| Abbott | 15 | $1,260 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $340 |
| Insightec,ltd | 1 | $253 |
| Stryker | 1 | $170 |
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.
- INFINITY$1,016
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$419
- Exablate$253
- GENERAL DBS$219
- ADHERUS AUTOSPRAY ET DURAL SEALANT$170
- ACTIVA$170
- Covidien-Intrasaccular$130
- AXIUM PRIMETM$108
How this compares
$2,324,660 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 140 neurological surgery providers in Minnesota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Budesonide | 21 | $1,365 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 15 | $482 |
| Amoxicillin | 24 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Rochester
- Vijay AgarwalRochester$101K
- Benjamin ElderRochester$69K
- Michelle ClarkeRochester$53K
- Jeremy FogelsonRochester$40K
- Giuseppe LanzinoRochester$37K
- Daniela StastnaRochester$10K
- Robert SpinnerRochester$9K
- Rushna AliRochester$8K
- Nikita LakomkinRochester$8K
- Ken PorcheRochester$7K
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.