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

Raymond Lee

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Los Angeles, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1134422934 CMS profile 737606

1520 San Pablo St Ste 4300, Los Angeles, CA 90033

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General payments

$291,329

403 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Raymond Lee of Los Angeles, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $291,329 across 403 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 97th percentile of Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular 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 $31,038 59
2024 General $32,444 58
2023 General $48,398 59
2022 General $60,365 74
2021 General $50,708 57
2020 General $35,775 34
2019 General $32,601 62

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Raymond Lee
  • Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median
  • Middle half of Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Raymond Lee were reported at $31,038. Among 4,073 Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) profiles paid that year, the median was $791 and the middle half received between $208 and $3,074.

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Year Raymond Lee Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median Middle half National median
2019 $32,601 $886 $178–$3,167 $163
2020 $35,775 $341 $108–$1,605 $114
2021 $50,708 $453 $125–$1,886 $132
2022 $60,365 $695 $180–$2,566 $149
2023 $48,398 $745 $205–$2,662 $160
2024 $32,444 $799 $214–$2,967 $164
2025 $31,038 $791 $208–$3,074 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Abiomed $266,306 267 payments
  2. Abbott Laboratories $13,461 51 payments
  3. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $7,162 25 payments
  4. Atricure, Inc. $2,067 27 payments
  5. Baxter Healthcare $508 7 payments
  6. CHF Solutions, Inc $283 1 payment
  7. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $271 2 payments
  8. Maquet Cardiovascular U.S. Sales, L.L.C. $234 6 payments
  9. Bolton Medical Inc $223 2 payments
  10. CryoLife, Inc. $192 3 payments
  11. Other $623 12 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Honoraria $188,100 68 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $51,440 93 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $33,925 15 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $17,852 226 payments
  5. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $12 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Impella $241,856 234 payments
  2. HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device $5,509 8 payments
  3. 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE Structural Heart $2,893 5 payments
  4. 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE Heart failure $2,537 17 payments
  5. AtriCure cryoICE cryoSPHERE Cryoablation System $1,481 2 payments
  6. MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve $1,296 10 payments
  7. THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT $1,292 12 payments
  8. ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM $987 10 payments
  9. SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM $467 10 payments
  10. CentriMag $448 4 payments
  11. Other $5,081 61 payments

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

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 71 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$101,938

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

67

Average age 69

Services billed

215

24 women, 43 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 75%
Heart failure 75%
Ischemic heart disease 75%
Atrial fibrillation 66%
Chronic kidney disease 57%
Diabetes 54%
Arthritis 45%
COPD 31%

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

403 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

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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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