Nichole Lee, NP
Acute Care · Glendale, AZNPI 1609419639
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (39.3%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 31 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.8%. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,237 and has fallen 70.6% since, to $1,244 in 2025. Among acute care clinicians in AZ 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 87 payments — averaging $101.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Accord Healthcare, Inc.$2K
- Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$1K
- Sobi, Inc$628
- GSK$550
- EMD Serono, Inc.$492
- CTI Biopharma Corp.$487
- plus $4K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,45016%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,90633%
- Food & beverage$3,46039%
- Education$7078%
- Other$2833%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Accord Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $1,656 |
| Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $1,158 |
| Sobi, Inc | 11 | $628 |
| GSK | 2 | $550 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 4 | $492 |
| CTI Biopharma Corp. | 4 | $487 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $471 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $464 |
| Gilead | 7 | $360 |
| Novartis | 3 | $283 |
| Stemline Therapeutics Inc. | 5 | $278 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $258 |
| Novocure GmbH | 1 | $200 |
| AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $177 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $172 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $143 |
| Seagen Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Incyte Corporation | 2 | $126 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $121 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $117 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $95 |
| Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation | 3 | $89 |
| Amgen | 1 | $87 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 3 | $54 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Bayer | 2 | $33 |
| Genmab U.S., Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 1 | $27 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Beone Medicines USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Nuvation Bio Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$8,806 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 482 acute care providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| JakafiRuxolitinib Phosphate | 39 | $630,587 |
| PomalystPomalidomide | 17 | $416,679 |
| CalquenceAcalabrutinib Maleate | 20 | $287,522 |
| TagrissoOsimertinib Mesylate | 16 | $262,009 |
| NubeqaDarolutamide | 18 | $240,246 |
| BrukinsaZanubrutinib | 25 | $229,453 |
| IbrancePalbociclib | 13 | $224,652 |
| VerzenioAbemaciclib | 13 | $186,699 |
| XtandiEnzalutamide | 13 | $179,978 |
| EliquisApixaban | 193 | $145,977 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 101 | $91,440 |
| Sunitinib Malate | 12 | $64,920 |
| Abiraterone Acetate | 50 | $44,890 |
| Tamoxifen Citrate | 83 | $2,522 |
| Letrozole | 96 | $2,278 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Incyte CorporationJakafi | $126 | $630,58739 claims |
| AstraZenecaCalquence, Tagrisso | $464 | $549,53236 claims |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Pomalyst | $258 | $416,67917 claims |
| PfizerIbrance, Eliquis | $117 | $370,630206 claims |
| BayerNubeqa | $33 | $240,24618 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $471 | $91,440101 claims |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLCAbiraterone Acetate | $121 | $44,89050 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 482 acute care providers in Arizona.
Other acute care in Glendale
- Stephanie TironeGlendale$10K
- Jabez BarajasGlendale$9K
- Dana SochackiGlendale$8K
- Robin McLinnGlendale$5K
- Melissa LockettGlendale$5K
- Nicole CiffoneTucson$162K
- Kim KrmpoticPhoenix$79K
- Stephanie WilsonScottsdale$37K
- Laura Cook-GongoraPhoenix$32K
- Cathy PaynePhoenix$26K
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.