Leonard Lee, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Hackensack, NJNPI 1457448532
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (43.9%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Abbott accounts for 68.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in NJ 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 315 payments — averaging $454.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$98K
- Edwards Lifesciences$34K
- Medtronic$4K
- Abiomed$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$738
- plus $822 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$62,82044%
- Speaking & faculty fees$37,02526%
- Travel & lodging$24,41317%
- Food & beverage$17,75112%
- Education$7501%
- Other$2820%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 138 | $97,981 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 74 | $34,088 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 28 | $4,055 |
| Abiomed | 37 | $3,043 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 18 | $2,313 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 11 | $738 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $294 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $139 |
| Saranas, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $97 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $75 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $71 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Epic$33,441
- MitraClip$24,863
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$14,421
- MitraClip System$9,100
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$6,664
- Tricuspid Valve Repair System$5,850
- PORTICO$5,445
- Mosaic$3,091
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,946
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$1,826
- Impella$1,633
- NAVITOR$556
- Barostim Neo System$294
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$208
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$204
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$186
- Mitra Clip system$162
- Simulus$155
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$151
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$144
How this compares
$143,040 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 129 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in New Jersey.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 85 | $607 |
| Furosemide | 14 | $55 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Hackensack
- Yuriy DudiyHackensack$37K
- Daniel MansourHackensack$13K
- Geoffrey PelzHackensack$13K
- Elie ElmannHackensack$8K
- Michael SpalloneHackensack$7K
- Gary KlineHackensack$6K
- Atiq RehmanCherry Hill$503K
- Mark RussoNew Brunswick$219K
- Adam ArnofskyEnglewood$132K
- Igor GosevNewark$118K
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.