Tam le, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Fountain Valley, CANPI 1699770370
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $28,000 of the $36,779 with a category attached, or 76.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 86.2% of it on its own, with 34 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $18,364 and has fallen 90.1% since, to $1,822 in 2025. Among colon & rectal surgery clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 162 payments — averaging $227.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$32K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$953
- Davol Inc.$764
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$604
- Gilead$441
- Medtronic$388
- plus $2K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$7502%
- Travel & lodging$1,1983%
- Food & beverage$6,71618%
- Education$28,00076%
- Gifts$1160%
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 | 42 | $31,703 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 30 | $953 |
| Davol Inc. | 16 | $764 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 3 | $604 |
| Gilead | 4 | $441 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $388 |
| Coloplast | 4 | $222 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $192 |
| BD | 5 | $176 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $119 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $118 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $109 |
| Acell, Inc. | 5 | $108 |
| Vertex | 3 | $104 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 4 | $92 |
| Activ Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $51 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 2 | $48 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $43 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $41 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $29 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $23 |
| Guard Medical Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Intersect ENT, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $14 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $13 |
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
$36,779 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 176 colon & rectal surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 82 | $4,772 |
| Hydrocortisone | 36 | $1,021 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 138 | $953 |
| Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine | 29 | $786 |
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 22 | $370 |
| Nystatin | 13 | $362 |
| Procto-Med HcHydrocortisone | 21 | $279 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 28 | $174 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 11 | $150 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 14 | $120 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 14 | $91 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 19 | $73 |
| Potassium Chloride | 11 | $69 |
| Naproxen | 11 | $49 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 11 | $44 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Fountain Valley
- Sang LeeLos Angeles$2.4M
- Pamela LeeSan Diego$544K
- Elizabeth RaskinSacramento$126K
- Shohrat AnnaberdyevRoseville$101K
- Alessio PigazziLos Angeles$100K
- Joseph CarmichaelOrange$99K
- Phillip FleshnerWest Hollywood$95K
- Zuri MurrellBeverly Hills$86K
- Lorenc MalellariBakersfield$78K
- Ankit SarinSacramento$60K
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.