Lee Leddy, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Charleston, SCNPI 1730365131
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 14 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 9 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $2,843.
Across 14 payments — averaging $64.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$158
- Carbofix Orthopedics Inc$155
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$151
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$125
- Molli Surgical (US) Inc$79
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$76
- plus $153 from 3 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $18,000 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.
- KCI USA, Inc.$36K
- Solventum Corporation$18K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$896100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $158 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 3 | $155 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 1 | $151 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Molli Surgical (US) Inc | 1 | $79 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $76 |
| Stryker | 1 | $76 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $51 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $27 |
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
$896 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 325 orthopaedic surgery providers in South Carolina.
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 orthopaedic surgery in Charleston
- Brent PonceCharleston$874K
- Daniel ScottCharleston$70K
- Thomas MoranCharleston$56K
- Brian CashCharleston$44K
- Brandon RogalskiCharleston$20K
- Zeke WaltonCharleston$19K
- William SmithColumbia$7.7M
- Richard FrischMt Pleasant$1M
- Chi LimSpartanburg$320K
- Todd LansfordNorth Charleston$286K
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.