Stella Lee, MD
Hand Surgery · Newburyport, MANPI 1922411883
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — grants (47.8%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Acumed LLC at 48.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $10,904 and has fallen 89.7% since, to $1,128 in 2025.
Across 62 payments — averaging $337.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acumed LLC$10K
- Arthrex$3K
- Trimed, Inc.$3K
- Kairos Surgical Inc$2K
- Microaire Surgical Instruments LLC$1K
- Sonex Health, Inc.$898
- plus $2K from 15 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $16,031 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Eli Lilly$16K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$8004%
- Grants$10,00048%
- Travel & lodging$2,30111%
- Food & beverage$4,22920%
- Education$3,60017%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $10,067 |
| Arthrex | 11 | $2,956 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 11 | $2,801 |
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 6 | $1,704 |
| Microaire Surgical Instruments LLC | 2 | $1,000 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 3 | $898 |
| Axogen | 1 | $601 |
| Stryker | 7 | $255 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $176 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $106 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $52 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Vertex | 2 | $29 |
| Abbott | 1 | $25 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Tools - AFS$1,917
- SMART RELEASE$1,000
- Sx-One Microknife$898
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$601
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$601
- MAKO$133
- XIAFLEX$111
- Knees Product Portfolio$106
How this compares
$20,930 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 68 hand surgery providers in Massachusetts.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 45 | $134 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 33 | $130 |
| Cephalexin | 13 | $63 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 11 | $28 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Newburyport
- Andrew JawaWaltham$2.6M
- George DyerBoston$362K
- Andrew PalmerProvincetown$264K
- Branden EarpBoston$74K
- Chaitanya MudgalBoston$46K
- Charles CassidyBoston$44K
- Bruce LeslieNewton$32K
- Peter ProkopisPeabody$27K
- Philip BlazarBoston$21K
- Gabriel MerlinBeverly$16K
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.