Stephen Lee, MD
Pulmonary Disease · San Diego, CANPI 1760430995
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 10 payments — averaging $72.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bayer$200
- Pulmonx Corporation$142
- Intuitive Surgical$134
- Merck$119
- United Therapeutics Corporation$57
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$30
- plus $46 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$20027%
- Food & beverage$47165%
- Education$578%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bayer | 1 | $200 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 1 | $142 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $134 |
| Merck | 1 | $119 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 2 | $57 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Breas Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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
$728 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,261 pulmonary disease providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OfevNintedanib Esylate | 12 | $149,210 |
| Ambrisentan | 22 | $50,374 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 30 | $22,200 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 17 | $14,486 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 14 | $10,285 |
| Arnuity ElliptaFluticasone Furoate | 14 | $4,374 |
| Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 11 | $3,242 |
| Tadalafil | 32 | $2,878 |
| Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 23 | $1,914 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 19 | $995 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 21 | $540 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 11 | $146 |
| Prednisone | 18 | $28 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pulmonary disease in San Diego
- Edward FedermanSan Diego$3.6M
- David PochSan Diego$1.5M
- Shari BrazinskySan Diego$522K
- Samir MakaniSan Diego$371K
- George ChengSan Diego$309K
- Toby MaherLos Angeles$27.6M
- David PhamWestminster$5.9M
- Andrew WachtelLos Angeles$5.9M
- Aaron WeinbergIrvine$5.1M
- Michael RothLos Angeles$4.5M
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.