William Lee
Internal Medicine · Tacoma, WANPI 1285626325
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 394 payments — averaging $14.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$549
- AbbVie$463
- Amgen$365
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$346
- Johnson & Johnson$336
- plus $3K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,661100%
- Education$210%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 54 | $1,011 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 34 | $549 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 25 | $463 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 32 | $365 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 13 | $346 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 25 | $336 |
| Pfizer | 38 | $292 |
| Merck | 26 | $276 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 21 | $217 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 10 | $214 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 26 | $213 |
| GSK | 12 | $196 |
| AstraZeneca | 11 | $187 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 16 | $154 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $144 |
| Novartis | 7 | $116 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $79 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $77 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $74 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $52 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $35 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $29 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 2 | $25 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, 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.
- XARELTO$135
- RYBELSUS$125
- INJECTAFER$125
- TRULANCE$123
- Ozempic$118
How this compares
$5,682 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,038 internal medicine providers in Washington.
Other internal medicine in Tacoma
- Vidya MenonTacoma$1.8M
- Daniel GinsbergTacoma$336K
- Royce MorrisonTacoma$72K
- Jeffrey HooperTacoma$65K
- Jon RuckleTacoma$58K
- Sabrina BenjaminOlympia$7.9M
- Ryan AhernSeattle$7.3M
- Eric KleinOlympia$2.4M
- Scott RamseySeattle$2M
- Peter ShalitSeattle$1.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.