Michael Lee, MD
Hand Surgery · Las Vegas, NVNPI 1518945898
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (56.4%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 25 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.6%. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in NV, where the typical reported total is $6,204.
Across 59 payments — averaging $105.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Goode Surgical Inc$1K
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$1K
- Medartis Inc.$972
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$353
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$328
- Stryker$255
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,37022%
- Food & beverage$3,49756%
- Education$1,33722%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Goode Surgical Inc | 4 | $1,339 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 5 | $1,219 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $972 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 11 | $353 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $328 |
| Stryker | 5 | $255 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 6 | $232 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $219 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $153 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $135 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $126 |
| Vertex | 1 | $125 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $122 |
| Amgen | 1 | $122 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $105 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $85 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $52 |
| Axogen | 1 | $42 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $38 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $35 |
| Biocircuit Technologies Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 1 | $27 |
| Biowound Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $26 |
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
$6,204 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 24 hand surgery providers in Nevada.
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 | 67 | $456 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 35 | $330 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 42 | $152 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 12 | $119 |
| Naproxen | 14 | $82 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Las Vegas
- Alan MicevLas Vegas$53K
- James VaheyLas Vegas$8K
- Jonathan SorelleLas Vegas$7K
- Ajit AmesurLas Vegas$7K
- Braden MattisonLas Vegas$6K
- Olivia WangLas Vegas$5K
- George GluckLas Vegas$1K
- Arthur TaylorLas Vegas$995
- Walter SongLas Vegas$883
- Conrad YuLas Vegas$171
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.