Has Lee Mandel, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $69,390 in general payments to Lee Mandel, MD across 51 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Lee Mandel, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Lee Mandel, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Lee Mandel, MD

Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck · Hollywood, FLNPI 1851326029

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $65,450 of the $69,390 with a category attached, or 94.3%. Stryker accounts for 99.2% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $39,205 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $223 in 2025. Among plastic surgery within the head & neck clinicians in FL 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.

$69,390in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 51 payments — averaging $1360.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$69K
Medtronic$228
Intersect ENT, Inc.$148
Alk-abello, Inc$94
Aerin Medical Inc.$34
Optinose US, Inc.$24

$31,072in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $1553.61 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.

Aerin Medical Inc.$16K
Smith+Nephew$15K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$65,45094%
Travel & lodging$1,9783%
Food & beverage$1,9623%

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
Stryker	41	$68,862
Medtronic	3	$228
Intersect ENT, Inc.	1	$148
Alk-abello, Inc	1	$94
Aerin Medical Inc.	4	$34
Optinose US, Inc.	1	$24

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.

ENTELLUS - XPRESS ENT DILATION SYSTEM$43,130
CLARIFIX CRYOTHERAPY DEVICE$24,434
XPRESS ENT DILATION SYSTEM$14,089
LATERA$13,630
SHAVER SYSTEM$13,492
SCOPIS ENT$10,942
ORTHOMAP$2,550
PROPEL$165
VenSure$148

How this compares

$69,390 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 50 plastic surgery within the head & neck providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$549,070

Medicare patients

200

Services billed

5,896

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
Azelastine-FluticasoneAzelastine/Fluticasone	15	$1,974
Azelastine Hcl	36	$636
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	54	$323
Ipratropium Bromide	12	$321
Atorvastatin Calcium	12	$267
Prednisone	126	$217
Omeprazole	13	$191
Doxycycline Hyclate	25	$167
Fluticasone Propionate	20	$149
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	57	$149
Gabapentin	110	$87
Clonidine Hcl	116	$83
Lidocaine Hcl ViscousLidocaine Hcl	12	$79

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other plastic surgery within the head & neck in Hollywood

Ross ClevensMelbourne$208K
Julio GalloMiami$68K
Michael FalluccoJacksonville$37K
Joseph LopezOrlando$16K
Jacob SteigerBoca Raton$14K
Carlos WolfMiami$5K
Rian MaercksMiami$5K
Nicholas MonsulSarasota$5K
Stephen AdlerStuart$5K
Kavita PattaniOrlando$5K

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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.

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