Seeyuen Lee
Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1295034858
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (55.2%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 28 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 37.0% of the total.
Across 138 payments — averaging $101.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$702
- Boston Scientific$656
- Davol Inc.$655
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,71012%
- Food & beverage$7,77655%
- Education$4,50032%
- Entertainment$891%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 10 | $5,204 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 33 | $3,491 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 21 | $1,088 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 7 | $702 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $656 |
| Davol Inc. | 11 | $655 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $528 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $338 |
| Covidien LP | 5 | $260 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 3 | $160 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 1 | $150 |
| Mauna Kea Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $149 |
| Teleflex LLC | 4 | $103 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $98 |
| Kerecis Limited | 5 | $86 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $51 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $49 |
| Mckesson Medical-surgical, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $43 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $36 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $23 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $9 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$4,500
- BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$1,249
- SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforcement$720
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$422
- Da Vinci Surgical System$392
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$328
- PerClot$291
- SEAMGUARD$253
- Bravo$173
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$168
- GI Genius$164
- ERBE; APC 2; VIO300D$150
- OviTex 2S$146
- GORE ENFORM Intraperitoneal Biomaterial$146
- SEPRAFILM$131
- SpyGlass Discover$128
- PHASIX$127
- APOLLO Revise System$122
- ManoScan$119
- XENAB$119
How this compares
$14,075 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,830 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 35 | $2,096 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 15 | $200 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 21 | $65 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Houston
- James SuliburkHouston$161K
- Funda MericHouston$141K
- Jonathan StahlHouston$105K
- Richard KnightHouston$103K
- Tanyaradzwa KajeseHouston$92K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Steven FassAustin$989K
- Vineet ChoudhryAustin$851K
- Andy HawthorneRound Rock$843K
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.