Lee Pederson, MD
Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1083690622
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 45 payments — averaging $44.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Convatec Inc.$1K
- AbbVie$105
- Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC$65
- Abbott$55
- Merck$47
- Surmodics, Inc.$41
- plus $432 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$57929%
- Food & beverage$1,43171%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Convatec Inc. | 8 | $1,265 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $105 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 3 | $65 |
| Abbott | 2 | $55 |
| Merck | 2 | $47 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $37 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $36 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $35 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Vertex | 1 | $28 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $25 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $22 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $20 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $17 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Mozarc Medical US LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $12 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $10 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $9 |
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.
- InnovaMatrix AC$693
- AQUACEL AG$143
How this compares
$2,010 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 970 surgery providers in North 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 74 | $815 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Brant HenifordCharlotte$963K
- Vedra AugensteinCharlotte$789K
- John MartinieCharlotte$712K
- Dimitrios StefanidisCharlotte$697K
- David IannittiCharlotte$652K
- Jason BurgessCharlotte$386K
- Gregory StanleyCharlotte$314K
- Keith GersinCharlotte$283K
- Erin BakerCharlotte$221K
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.