Richard Lee, MD
Vascular Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1902810112
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 171 payments — averaging $218.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$34K
- Johnson & Johnson$501
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$386
- Surmodics, Inc.$279
- Baxter Healthcare$276
- Tactile Systems Technology Inc$174
- plus $2K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$28,00075%
- Travel & lodging$3,70410%
- Food & beverage$5,62315%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 62 | $33,725 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 25 | $501 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 12 | $386 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 9 | $279 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $276 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 12 | $174 |
| ETS Wound Care LLC | 1 | $164 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $153 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $149 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $143 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $141 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $110 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $92 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $82 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $77 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $67 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $66 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $63 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $40 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $34 |
| Reapplix Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $29 |
| Mozarc Medical US LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $22 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $19 |
| Baylis Medical Technologies Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $16 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- ClosureFast$18,060
- VenaSeal$13,882
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$453
- MIRRAGEN ADVANCED WOUND MATRIX$164
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$153
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$153
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$149
- Avalus$127
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$123
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$123
- PREVELEAK$122
- Perceval$119
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$113
How this compares
$37,327 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 347 vascular surgery providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 18 | $22,496 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 54 | $639 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 18 | $219 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 17 | $176 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $52 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 15 | $50 |
| Amoxicillin | 11 | $39 |
| Diazepam | 21 | $8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $501 | $22,49618 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 80th percentile of 347 vascular surgery providers in Texas.
Other vascular surgery in Houston
- Alan LumsdenHouston$2.4M
- Gustavo OderichHouston$999K
- Samuel LeonardHouston$431K
- Ali AzizzadehHouston$387K
- Jean BismuthHouston$382K
- Kristofer Charlton-OuwHouston$240K
- Maham RahimiHouston$221K
- Jayer ChungHouston$179K
- Steven MaximusHouston$140K
- Charudatta BavareHouston$130K
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.