Steven Lee, MD
Sports Medicine · Nyc, NYNPI 1538154380
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,302,398 of the $3,263,905 with a category attached, or 70.5%. Arthrex accounts for 99.4% of it on its own, with 31 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among sports medicine clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 833 payments — averaging $3918.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$3.2M
- Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.$6K
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$2K
- Stryker$2K
- DJO, LLC$2K
- Polynovo North America LLC$1K
- plus $8K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,302,39871%
- Consulting fees$225,6277%
- Speaking & faculty fees$651,96620%
- Travel & lodging$57,5412%
- Food & beverage$21,6491%
- Education$4,7240%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 697 | $3,244,082 |
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 16 | $6,077 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 11 | $1,817 |
| Stryker | 12 | $1,539 |
| DJO, LLC | 10 | $1,510 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 9 | $1,328 |
| Suvon Surgical LLC | 10 | $1,296 |
| Globus Medical | 8 | $943 |
| Acumed LLC | 8 | $656 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 13 | $524 |
| Axogen | 6 | $521 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $454 |
| Lifenet Health | 3 | $406 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $281 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $278 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $259 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $259 |
| Embody, Inc. | 1 | $246 |
| Pylant Medical | 2 | $239 |
| Linkbio Corp | 1 | $225 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $167 |
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 1 | $140 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 2 | $136 |
| Steelhead Surgical Inc | 1 | $107 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 1 | $69 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $53 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Goode Surgical 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.
- ARTHREX$9,367,892
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS HAND & WRIST SWIVELOCKS$279,893
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS HAND & WRIST ANCHORS$279,893
- AR-8988-CP$178,940
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS SOFT TISSUE ANCHORS$113,987
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS SOFT TISSUE DISPOSABLE KITS$113,987
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS TRAUMA MINI FRAGMENT$113,987
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS HAND & WRIST MINI FRAGMENT$54,222
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS HAND & WRIST OTHER$53,062
- EXTREMITIES & TRAUMA IMPLANTS HAND & WRIST DISTAL RADIUS$6,593
- CellerateRx$1,817
- Novosorb BTM$1,297
- IMAGING & RESECTION EQUIPMENT NANO SYSTEMS NANO CAMERA KIT$1,160
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS TRAUMA PATELLA FRACTURE$1,160
- VARIAX$704
- CMF$523
- GELSYN 3$454
- ACUMED$412
- Anthem$375
- GraftLink$291
How this compares
$3,263,905 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 403 sports medicine 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 89 | $655 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 15 | $114 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 31 | $102 |
| Meloxicam | 29 | $84 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Nyc
- Stephen NicholasNyc$586K
- James PaciWoodbury$2.1M
- Gregory DifeliceNew York$1.8M
- Ilya VoloshinRochester$786K
- Theodore BlaineNew York$765K
- Robert MeislinNew York$720K
- Danyal NawabiNew York$592K
- Riley WilliamsNew York$512K
- Bryan KellyNew York$409K
- Samuel TaylorNew York$255K
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.