Dollars for Docs

How Industry Dollars Reach Your Doctors

This database was last updated in October 2019 and should only be used as a historical snapshot. Newer data is available at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Open Payments site.

Is This Your Doctor?

JOE LEE

Listed Specialty: Orthopaedic Surgery
101 THE CITY DR S, ORANGE, CA, 92868-3201
Is This Your Doctor?

DR. JOE LEE,
Yearly Payment Breakdown:

2018 Payments At a Glance

46

payments

$55,402

payment total

4

companies paid this doctor

Payment Calendar in 2018

This doctor received a payment on days in 2018.

Each box below represents a single day during the disclosure period. A gray box indicates no payments. The darker the color, the more payments a doctor received that day.

2018

Types of Payments in 2018

Category Payments Payment Value
Consulting
10 $24,200
Royalty or License
2 $21,309
Travel and Lodging
2 $7,715
Food and Beverage
32 $2,179

Drugs & Devices in 2018

Totals listed below account for all payments from that mention this product. Beginning in 2016, the government began classifying products as drugs, devices, biologics or medical supplies. Below, you will see drugs (drugs and biologics) and devices (devices and medical supplies). If a payment record mentions more than one product, the entire value will be included in each of those products. When no products are listed, they are not included in the list below.

Product Name Product Type Payments
Payments with no listed product

N/A

$32,711
JULIET OL

device

$21,309
JULIET PO

device

$21,309
TLIF

device

$1,200
XLIF

device

$98
ALIF

device

$45
BLACKBIRD

device

$40
BLACKHAWK

device

$40
TIGER SHARK

device

$40
TOMCAT

device

$40
VEO

device

$40
† May not add up to dollar total at top of page, since a payment record may not be associated with any product or can be associated with several products.

Payment Details in 2018

When How Much Related To What For From Third Party Payee
Aug 28, 2018 $12,666 JULIET PO JULIET OL Royalty or License SPINEART SA
Jul 27, 2018 $12,150 No Listed Product Consulting SPINEART USA INC
Feb 28, 2018 $8,643 JULIET PO JULIET OL Royalty or License SPINEART SA
Jun 29, 2018 $5,763 No Listed Product Travel and Lodging SPINEART USA INC
May 7, 2018 $5,250 No Listed Product Consulting CHOICE SPINE, LLC
Jun 12, 2018 $2,000 No Listed Product Consulting SPINEART USA INC
Oct 12, 2018 $1,951 No Listed Product Travel and Lodging SPINEART USA INC
Oct 22, 2018 $1,000 No Listed Product Consulting SPINEART USA INC
Oct 12, 2018 $863 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Nov 1, 2018 $800 No Listed Product Consulting NUVASIVE, INC. Joe Lee, Joe Y.B. Lee, MD, Inc.
Jun 26, 2018 $800 No Listed Product Consulting NUVASIVE, INC. Joe Lee, Joe Y.B. Lee, MD, Inc.
Aug 14, 2018 $800 TLIF Consulting NUVASIVE, INC. Joe Lee, Joe Y.B. Lee, MD, Inc.
Jul 17, 2018 $500 No Listed Product Consulting SPINEART USA INC
Jan 7, 2018 $500 No Listed Product Consulting SPINEART USA INC
Nov 29, 2018 $400 TLIF Consulting NUVASIVE, INC. Joe Lee, Joe Y.B. Lee, MD, Inc.
Oct 12, 2018 $286 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Oct 13, 2018 $188 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Jul 3, 2018 $170 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Oct 25, 2018 $116 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Apr 5, 2018 $74 XLIF Food and Beverage NUVASIVE, INC.
Mar 5, 2018 $45 ALIF Food and Beverage NUVASIVE, INC.
Jul 1, 2018 $45 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Aug 16, 2018 $40 BLACKHAWK TIGER SHARK BLACKBIRD TOMCAT VEO Food and Beverage CHOICE SPINE, LLC
Oct 17, 2018 $38 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Oct 1, 2018 $36 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Jun 30, 2018 $30 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Apr 10, 2018 $26 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Jun 7, 2018 $23 XLIF Food and Beverage NUVASIVE, INC.
Nov 7, 2018 $23 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Nov 14, 2018 $19 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Jun 5, 2018 $18 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Oct 23, 2018 $15 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Mar 6, 2018 $13 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
May 2, 2018 $13 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Mar 21, 2018 $12 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Apr 18, 2018 $11 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Apr 25, 2018 $11 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
May 16, 2018 $9 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Nov 5, 2018 $9 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Apr 23, 2018 $9 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
May 29, 2018 $8 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Nov 29, 2018 $8 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
May 15, 2018 $7 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
May 10, 2018 $5 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
Apr 26, 2018 $5 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
May 17, 2018 $4 No Listed Product Food and Beverage SPINEART USA INC
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Note: We have made some effort to normalize the data and eliminate duplicates, but the data is primarily as it has been reported by the companies to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. To purchase the normalized data, please visit the ProPublica Data Store. If you spot an error, please let us know at [email protected].

This site includes data published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on June 28, 2019.