Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Kendall Lee

Neurological Surgery Rochester, MN Medical Doctor

NPI 1275544066 CMS profile 598548

200 1St St Sw, Rochester, MN 55905

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General payments

$2,324,660

44 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$8,250

Paid to them · 2 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$368,850 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2024–2025

Through program year 2025, Kendall Lee of Rochester, MN is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $2,324,660 across 44 general payments and $8,250 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $368,850 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Neurological Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $451 8
2024 General $1,489 16
2023 General $725 6
2022 General $2,321,238 6
2020 General $195 3
2020 Research $8,250 2
2019 General $563 5

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Kendall Lee
  • Neurological Surgery median
  • Middle half of Neurological Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Kendall Lee were reported at $451. Among 5,467 Neurological Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $596 and the middle half received between $159 and $3,102.

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Year Kendall Lee Neurological Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $563 $582 $138–$3,006 $163
2020 $195 $294 $76–$2,174 $114
2021 $0 $387 $105–$2,432 $132
2022 $2,321,238 $542 $139–$2,989 $149
2023 $725 $534 $145–$2,697 $160
2024 $1,489 $574 $155–$3,046 $164
2025 $451 $596 $159–$3,102 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic, Inc. $2,322,066 16 payments
  2. Abbott Laboratories $1,260 15 payments
  3. Medtronic USA, Inc. $571 6 payments
  4. Boston Scientific Corporation $340 5 payments
  5. InSightec,LTD $253 1 payment
  6. Stryker Corporation $170 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Debt forgiveness $1,879,955 1 payment
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $441,092 2 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $2,416 32 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $1,196 9 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. INFINITY Neuromodulation $930 8 payments
  2. STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM $740 9 payments
  3. ACTIVA $424 4 payments
  4. INFINITY Structural Heart $330 7 payments
  5. EXABLATE $253 1 payment
  6. GENERAL DBS $187 2 payments
  7. ADHERUS AUTOSPRAY ET DURAL SEALANT $170 1 payment
  8. General - DBS $132 2 payments
  9. Covidien-Intrasaccular $130 1 payment
  10. AXIUM PRIMETM $108 1 payment
  11. Other $94 2 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic USA, Inc. $8,250 2 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 3 drugs

Part D claims

60

Median for Neurosurgery: 83

Drug cost

$1,881

Median for Neurosurgery: $872

Branded share of claims

0%

Median for Neurosurgery: 16.5%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Budesonide Generic 21 $1,365
Doxycycline Monohydrate Generic 15 $482
Amoxicillin Generic 24 $33

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 2,779 Part D prescribers listed as Neurosurgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 30 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$87,965

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

134

Average age 71

Services billed

244

56 women, 78 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 64%
Arthritis 41%
Ischemic heart disease 31%
Depression 28%
Diabetes 25%
Chronic kidney disease 25%
Osteoporosis 18%
Atrial fibrillation 16%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

46 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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