Michael Lee
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Chicago, ILNPI 1881896652
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (40.0%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 35.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $43,432 and has fallen 82.4% since, to $7,639 in 2025.
Across 168 payments — averaging $638.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$38K
- Stryker$29K
- Synthes GmbH$20K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$15K
- Medtronic$4K
- Revance Therapeutics, Inc.$430
- plus $567 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$42,91840%
- Speaking & faculty fees$38,75036%
- Travel & lodging$20,77519%
- Food & beverage$4,7804%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 34 | $37,873 |
| Stryker | 29 | $29,129 |
| Synthes GmbH | 30 | $20,353 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 15 | $15,235 |
| Medtronic | 49 | $3,634 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $430 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $210 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $201 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| GSK | 1 | $23 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 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.
- AERO$26,042
- ANCHOR L$15,366
- ARIA$14,128
- EXPEDIUM$13,489
- CORBEL$11,917
- TRITANIUM$11,350
- SERRATO$10,676
- ES2$10,676
- Sable$10,001
- Quartex$9,619
- EXCELSIUS$4,500
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,301
- Xvision$1,006
- CASCADIA$953
- Excelsius - GPS$907
- ESCALATE$676
- DAXXIFY$430
- Velys$327
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$265
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$138
How this compares
$107,222 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Illinois.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 22 | $134 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 18 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Chicago
- Frank PhillipsChicago$3.9M
- Kern SinghChicago$1.3M
- Christopher DewaldChicago$1.2M
- Matthew ColmanChicago$334K
- Arash SayariChicago$174K
- Gregory LopezChicago$88K
- Howard AnChicago$82K
- Purnendu GuptaChicago$33K
- Karan PatelChicago$13K
- Neil MohileChicago$8K
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.