Has Lei Lu received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,318 in general payments to Lei Lu across 87 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 Lei Lu 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 Lei Lu 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.

Lei Lu

Pain Medicine · Asheville, NCNPI 1255954194

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,991 of the $6,318 with a category attached, or 79.0%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 30.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,407, 8.5 times the $399 reported in 2022.

$6,318in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 87 payments — averaging $72.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$2K
Medtronic$1K
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$686
Biotronik NRO, Inc.$488
MML US, Inc.$343
Nevro Corp.$246
plus $1K from 12 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,32721%
Food & beverage$4,99179%

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
Boston Scientific	32	$1,943
Medtronic	16	$1,410
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	10	$686
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	3	$488
MML US, Inc.	2	$343
Nevro Corp.	2	$246
Vertos Medical, Inc.	3	$179
GRT US Holding, Inc.	2	$165
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	2	$157
Globus Medical	2	$139
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$118
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$103
Painteq LLC	1	$103
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	2	$67
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	2	$54
Vertex	2	$50
Abbott	1	$36
Curonix LLC	1	$31

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

$6,318 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 182 pain medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
NuedextaDextromethorphan Hbr/Quinidine	18	$20,749
EliquisApixaban	17	$8,939
Levetiracetam	27	$558
Gabapentin	17	$176
Atorvastatin Calcium	13	$151

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Asheville

Javid BakshAsheville$116K
James NorthWinston Salem$721K
Leonardo KapuralWinston Salem$523K
Christopher GilmoreWinston Salem$457K
Richard RauckWinston Salem$431K
Courtney AumanJacksonville$186K
Jacob WangCharlotte$162K
Aashish KumarCharlotte$160K
David ZubLeland$97K
James DeeringCharlotte$93K

See the full list for North Carolina →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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