Who Paid My Doc
Sonwoo Lee
Rheumatology Los Angeles, CA Medical Doctor
NPI 1336168616 CMS profile 105765
505 S Virgil Ave, Suite 208, Los Angeles, CA 90020
General payments
$3,462
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Sonwoo Lee of Los Angeles, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $3,462 across 103 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 55th percentile of Rheumatology 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 | $84 | 3 | |
| 2024 | General | $135 | 5 | |
| 2023 | General | $188 | 7 | |
| 2022 | General | $618 | 23 | |
| 2021 | General | $716 | 25 | |
| 2020 | General | $182 | 8 | |
| 2019 | General | $1,540 | 32 |
Beside peers
- Sonwoo Lee
- Rheumatology median
- Middle half of Rheumatology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Sonwoo Lee were reported at $84. Among 4,454 Rheumatology profiles paid that year, the median was $903 and the middle half received between $171 and $2,775.
Show as a table
| Year | Sonwoo Lee | Rheumatology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $1,540 | $744 | $153–$2,687 | $163 |
| 2020 | $182 | $462 | $98–$2,027 | $114 |
| 2021 | $716 | $531 | $101–$2,153 | $132 |
| 2022 | $618 | $627 | $125–$2,303 | $149 |
| 2023 | $188 | $741 | $145–$2,524 | $160 |
| 2024 | $135 | $830 | $166–$2,660 | $164 |
| 2025 | $84 | $903 | $171–$2,775 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 212 drugsPart D claims
34,399
Drug cost
$4,493,267
Branded share of claims
25.7%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creon Lipase/Protease/Amylase | Brand | 883 | $1,029,047 | |
| Januvia Sitagliptin Phosphate | Brand | 818 | $530,817 | |
| Vascepa Icosapent Ethyl | Brand | 1,263 | $392,583 | |
| Prolia Denosumab | Brand | 202 | $342,229 | |
| Jardiance Empagliflozin | Brand | 365 | $251,485 | |
| Tradjenta Linagliptin | Brand | 323 | $208,127 | |
| Linzess Linaclotide | Brand | 342 | $199,292 | |
| Trulicity Dulaglutide | Brand | 176 | $171,388 | |
| Myrbetriq Mirabegron | Brand | 281 | $136,853 | |
| Enbrel Sureclick Etanercept | Brand | 13 | $95,440 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 212 counted.
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 104,182 Part D prescribers listed as Internal Medicine; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 41 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$288,357
Medicare patients
475
Services billed
10,122
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Diabetes | 75% | |
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Heart failure | 70% | |
| Depression | 59% | |
| Arthritis | 59% | |
| Osteoporosis | 45% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 32% | |
| Alzheimer's or dementia | 30% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyaluronan or derivative, hyalgan, supartz or visco-3, for intra-articular injection, per dose J7321 | Office | 30 | 243 | $12,811 |
| Vaccine for influenza for administration into muscle, 0.5 ml dosage 90656 | Office | 181 | 184 | $4,030 |
| Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older 90732 | Office | 26 | 26 | $3,401 |
| Injection, trimethobenzamide hcl, up to 200 mg J3250 | Office | 36 | 50 | $813 |
| Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 | Office | 54 | 3,961 | $378 |
| Injection, ketorolac tromethamine, per 15 mg J1885 | Office | 101 | 187 | $85 |
| Injection, ceftriaxone sodium, per 250 mg J0696 | Office | 101 | 184 | $56 |
| Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg J1030 | Office | 19 | 24 | $51 |
| Infusion, normal saline solution, sterile (500 ml = 1 unit) J7040 | Office | 31 | 45 | $38 |
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.
Payments and prescribing
4 products · payments 2024Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.
| Product | Paid by | Related payments | Part D claims | Part B services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CREON |
|
$82 | 883 | — |
| JARDIANCE |
|
$26 | 365 | — |
| EVENITY |
|
$13 | — | — |
| Prolia |
|
$13 | 202 | — |
A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.
Records
103 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.