Paul Lee
Cardiovascular Disease · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1376047332
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 273 payments — averaging $157.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$16K
- Medtronic$10K
- Boston Scientific$7K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$2K
- Philips North America LLC$1K
- plus $3K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$8,51520%
- Travel & lodging$22,97253%
- Food & beverage$9,89123%
- Education$1,6844%
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 | 83 | $15,904 |
| Medtronic | 45 | $9,696 |
| Boston Scientific | 40 | $7,402 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 26 | $3,709 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 33 | $1,965 |
| Philips North America LLC | 7 | $1,329 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $853 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 6 | $850 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 3 | $389 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 5 | $291 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $188 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 6 | $145 |
| Amgen | 4 | $99 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $94 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $45 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $40 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $15 |
| Instylla, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Carto 3$4,607
- ENSITE$2,802
- ENSITE PRECISION$2,802
- GALLANT$2,715
- VersaCross Access Solution$2,470
- TACTICATH$2,250
- ASSURITY$2,250
- Farapulse$1,011
- OPTIMIZER$728
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$713
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$713
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$664
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$664
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$664
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$644
- (9124) LM Undivided$549
- WATCHMAN FLX$350
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$300
- Acticor 7 VR-T DX$248
- EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System$210
How this compares
$43,062 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,250 cardiovascular disease providers in Pennsylvania.
Other cardiovascular disease in Pittsburgh
- Stephen ChanPittsburgh$1.2M
- Rewat CholapraneePittsburgh$598K
- George GabrielPittsburgh$584K
- Indu PoornimaPittsburgh$422K
- Brian HenryPittsburgh$269K
- Timothy WongPittsburgh$265K
- Mark GreathousePittsburgh$243K
- Danielle DuffyPhiladelphia$29.5M
- Venkatesh NadarCamp Hill$18.3M
- Hemal GadaWormleysburg$6.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.