Woongchae Lee, MD
Vascular Surgery · Boca Raton, FLNPI 1659312700
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (36.2%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Cook Incorporated at 34.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $27,177 and has fallen 79.9% since, to $5,452 in 2025. Among vascular surgery clinicians in FL 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 332 payments — averaging $241.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Incorporated$27K
- Bolton Medical Inc$19K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$16K
- Endologix LLC$8K
- Cook Medical LLC$4K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
- plus $5K from 21 others
Across 30 payments — averaging $11,199 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Cook Research Incorporated$327K
- Endologix LLC$6K
- Bolton Medical Inc$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$23,35029%
- Speaking & faculty fees$29,05036%
- Travel & lodging$1,7642%
- Food & beverage$24,66531%
- Entertainment$1,5002%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Incorporated | 12 | $27,465 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 76 | $19,371 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 70 | $15,912 |
| Endologix LLC | 32 | $7,550 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 59 | $3,738 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 12 | $1,319 |
| Centerline Biomedical Inc. | 15 | $890 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $580 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 8 | $501 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $461 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 3 | $362 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $328 |
| Abbott | 2 | $285 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $283 |
| Cook Research Incorporated | 1 | $225 |
| Inspiremd Ltd | 1 | $145 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $138 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $126 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 1 | $117 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $107 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $61 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Sirtex 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.
- Relay Grafts$10,147
- Cook Medical AAA$10,000
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$7,078
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$6,842
- Cook Medical Zenith$6,742
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$6,714
- Cook Medical AFEN$6,622
- GORE EXCLUDER Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis$6,555
- Relay Plus$3,872
- Lunderquist$2,790
- Ovation$2,587
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$2,332
- Product in Development$2,280
- Gelweave$1,870
- Grafts$1,219
- Cook Medical Advanced Tech$1,125
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$961
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$961
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$961
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$961
How this compares
$80,330 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 385 vascular surgery providers in Florida.
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 vascular surgery in Boca Raton
- Samuel TapperStuart$1.3M
- Mariano ArosemenaBradenton$472K
- Manuel Perez IzquierdoOrlando$302K
- Erin MooreJacksonville$300K
- Rajesh MalikNaples$237K
- Charles BaileyTampa$162K
- Joseph WasselleMelbourne$161K
- Joseph RicottaDelray Beach$156K
- Murray ShamesTampa$144K
- K Dean ArnaoutakisTampa$115K
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.