Steve Lee, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1396711958
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 133 payments — averaging $790.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axogen$57K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$25K
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$13K
- Sonex Health, Inc.$4K
- Synthes USA Products LLC$1K
- Stryker$1K
- plus $3K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,2321%
- Consulting fees$44,31742%
- Speaking & faculty fees$43,80042%
- Travel & lodging$6,4906%
- Food & beverage$9,2639%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Axogen | 52 | $57,460 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 15 | $25,359 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 14 | $12,599 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 9 | $3,882 |
| Synthes USA Products LLC | 1 | $1,440 |
| Stryker | 9 | $1,416 |
| Arthrex | 6 | $1,232 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 12 | $455 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $226 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $190 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $134 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $125 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $69 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $38 |
| Maxx Health Inc | 1 | $35 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 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.
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$27,318
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$21,845
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$21,845
- Checkpoint Stimulators$12,436
- Sx-One Microknife$1,925
- ULTRAGUIDECTR$1,813
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$1,371
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$1,371
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS HAND & WRIST ANCHORS$1,162
- VARIAX$403
- INTEGRA$395
- ICONIX$229
- Juggerknotless Soft Anchor$190
- T2 ALPHA$170
- VITOSS$163
- 1788$162
- AXSOS$162
- Proximal Humerus Strut$151
- XIAFLEX$150
- PROGEL$146
How this compares
$105,102 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,079 orthopaedic surgery providers in New York.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in New York
- Anthony RomeoNew York$27M
- Lawrence LenkeNew York$26.8M
- Edwin SuNew York$14.1M
- William RicciNew York$11.6M
- Steven HaasNew York$11.5M
- Giles ScuderiNew York$10.9M
- Joseph ZuckermanNew York$9.9M
- Evan FlatowNew York$9.6M
- Bradford ParsonsNew York$9.4M
- Geoffrey WestrichNew York$8M
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.