Has Raymond Lee, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $291,329 in general payments to Raymond Lee, MD across 403 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Raymond Lee, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Raymond Lee, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Raymond Lee, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Los Angeles, CANPI 1134422934

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $188,112 of the $291,329 with a category attached, or 64.6%. Abiomed accounts for 91.4% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in CA 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.

$291,329in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 403 payments — averaging $722.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abiomed$266K
Abbott$13K
Edwards Lifesciences$7K
Atricure, Inc.$2K
Baxter Healthcare$508
Medtronic$336
plus $1K from 11 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$33,92512%
Speaking & faculty fees$188,11265%
Travel & lodging$51,44018%
Food & beverage$17,8526%

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
Abiomed	267	$266,306
Abbott	51	$13,461
Edwards Lifesciences	25	$7,162
Atricure, Inc.	27	$2,067
Baxter Healthcare	7	$508
Medtronic(2 entities)	5	$336
Nuwellis, Inc.	1	$283
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	6	$234
Bolton Medical Inc	2	$223
Artivion, Inc.	3	$192
Smith+Nephew	1	$167
Cook Medical LLC	2	$128
Johnson & Johnson	2	$109
Zimmer Biomet	1	$60
Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.	1	$49
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$24
Quest Medical Inc.	1	$20

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

$291,329 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$127,773

Medicare patients

Services billed

215

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.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Los Angeles

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Richard SheminLos Angeles$112K
Anthony KimLos Angeles$66K
Jonathan PraegerLos Angeles$60K
Craig BakerLos Angeles$58K
Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M

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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.

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