Payment Breakdown by Category
Payments by Nature
| Nature of Payment | Amount | Transactions | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consulting Fee | $91,343 | 30 | 43.8% |
| Grant | $75,000 | 1 | 35.9% |
| Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program | $28,000 | 6 | 13.4% |
| Travel and Lodging | $6,494 | 13 | 3.1% |
| Unspecified | $5,402 | 3 | 2.6% |
| Food and Beverage | $2,490 | 19 | 1.2% |
Payments by Type
Top Paying Companies
| Company | Total | Records | Latest Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alcon Research LLC | $100,954 | 8 | $0 (2024) |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | $44,280 | 7 | $0 (2024) |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | $28,673 | 7 | $0 (2024) |
| Genentech, Inc. | $12,469 | 18 | $0 (2020) |
| F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG | $7,696 | 5 | $0 (2024) |
| TOPCON MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. | $7,130 | 8 | $0 (2019) |
| Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc | $5,100 | 9 | $0 (2024) |
| Alcon Vision LLC | $1,640 | 7 | $0 (2024) |
| Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | $695.00 | 1 | $0 (2021) |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | $69.76 | 1 | $0 (2019) |
Payment History by Year
| Year | Amount | Transactions | Top Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $33,177 | 20 | Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH ($9,988) |
| 2023 | $31,875 | 9 | Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH ($18,685) |
| 2022 | $26,543 | 8 | Janssen Research & Development, LLC ($20,295) |
| 2021 | $17,380 | 4 | Janssen Research & Development, LLC ($11,685) |
| 2020 | $80,119 | 5 | Alcon Research LLC ($80,000) |
| 2019 | $19,163 | 24 | Genentech, Inc. ($12,350) |
| 2018 | $472.04 | 2 | TOPCON MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. ($472.04) |
All Payment Transactions
72 individual payment records from CMS Open Payments — Page 1 of 3
| Date | Company | Product | Nature | Form | Amount | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/24/2024 | Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc | — | Consulting Fee | Cash or cash equivalent | $850.00 | General |
| 10/24/2024 | Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc | — | Consulting Fee | Cash or cash equivalent | $850.00 | General |
| 10/24/2024 | Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc | — | Consulting Fee | Cash or cash equivalent | $425.00 | General |
| 10/24/2024 | Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc | — | Consulting Fee | Cash or cash equivalent | $425.00 | General |
| 10/04/2024 | Alcon Vision LLC | — | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $490.40 | General |
| Category: Ophthalmology | ||||||
| 10/04/2024 | Alcon Research LLC | — | Travel and Lodging | In-kind items and services | $390.95 | General |
| 10/04/2024 | Alcon Vision LLC | — | Travel and Lodging | In-kind items and services | $262.38 | General |
| Category: Ophthalmology | ||||||
| 10/04/2024 | Alcon Vision LLC | — | Travel and Lodging | In-kind items and services | $140.00 | General |
| Category: Ophthalmology | ||||||
| 09/27/2024 | Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc | — | Consulting Fee | Cash or cash equivalent | $850.00 | General |
| 07/22/2024 | Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | — | Consulting Fee | Cash or cash equivalent | $2,550.00 | General |
| 07/20/2024 | Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc | — | Consulting Fee | Cash or cash equivalent | $425.00 | General |
| 07/10/2024 | Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc | — | Consulting Fee | Cash or cash equivalent | $425.00 | General |
| 07/10/2024 | Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc | — | Consulting Fee | Cash or cash equivalent | $425.00 | General |
| 07/04/2024 | Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | — | Consulting Fee | Cash or cash equivalent | $6,800.00 | General |
| 07/01/2024 | Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | — | Consulting Fee | Cash or cash equivalent | $637.50 | General |
| 06/28/2024 | Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc | — | Consulting Fee | Cash or cash equivalent | $425.00 | General |
| 04/09/2024 | Janssen Research & Development, LLC | — | Consulting Fee | Cash or cash equivalent | $9,020.00 | General |
| 04/01/2024 | F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG | — | Consulting Fee | Cash or cash equivalent | $840.00 | General |
| 03/31/2024 | F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG | — | — | In-kind items and services | $1,945.83 | Research |
| Study: Deep Learning to Predict the Future Growth of Geographic Atrophy from Fundus Autofluorescence | ||||||
| 03/28/2024 | Alcon Research LLC | — | Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program | Cash or cash equivalent | $5,000.00 | General |
| 11/15/2023 | Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | — | Consulting Fee | Cash or cash equivalent | $3,400.00 | General |
| 10/01/2023 | F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG | — | Consulting Fee | Cash or cash equivalent | $2,940.00 | General |
| 08/21/2023 | Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | — | Consulting Fee | Cash or cash equivalent | $850.00 | General |
| 07/01/2023 | F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG | — | Consulting Fee | Cash or cash equivalent | $1,260.00 | General |
| 06/30/2023 | F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG | — | — | In-kind items and services | $710.14 | Research |
| Study: Geographic Atrophy Segmentation Using Multimodal Deep Learning | ||||||
Research Studies & Clinical Trials
| Study Name | Company | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deep Learning to Predict the Future Growth of Geographic Atrophy from Fundus Autofluorescence | F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG | $1,946 | 1 |
| Geographic Atrophy Segmentation Using Multimodal Deep Learning | F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG | $710.14 | 1 |
Medicare Billing by Year
| Year | Procedures | Beneficiaries | Services | Submitted | Medicare Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | 68 | 87 | $17,670 | $5,142 |
All Medicare Procedures & Services
3 procedure records from CMS Medicare Utilization
| HCPCS | Description | Setting | Year | Patients | Services | Charges | Medicare Paid | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92134 | Imaging of retina | Office | 2023 | 37 | 50 | $6,120 | $1,784 | 29.1% |
| 67028 | Injection of drug into eye | Office | 2023 | 11 | 16 | $5,809 | $1,697 | 29.2% |
| 99213 | Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes | Office | 2023 | 20 | 21 | $5,741 | $1,661 | 28.9% |
About Dr. Aaron Lee, MD
Dr. Aaron Lee, MD is a Retina Specialist healthcare provider based in Saint Louis, Missouri. This provider has been registered with the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) since 06/19/2009. The National Provider Identifier (NPI) number assigned to this provider is 1063649713.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments database, Dr. Aaron Lee, MD has received a total of $208,729 in payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, with $33,177 received in 2024. These payments were reported across 72 transactions from 11 companies. The most common payment nature is "Consulting Fee" ($91,343).
As a Medicare-enrolled provider, Lee has provided services to 68 Medicare beneficiaries, totaling 87 services with total Medicare billing of $5,142. Data is available for 1 year (2023–2023), covering 3 distinct procedure/service records.
Practice Information
- Specialty Retina Specialist
- Location Saint Louis, MO
- Active Since 06/19/2009
- Last Updated 09/30/2025
- Taxonomy Code 207WX0107X
- Entity Type Individual
- NPI Number 1063649713
Products in Payments
- OCT TRITON (Device) $6,783
- EYLEA (Biological) $695.00
- OCT-TRITON (Device) $346.99
- Lucentis (Biological) $291.13
- BEOVU (Drug) $23.48
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Data Sources
Provider data from NPPES. Payment data from CMS Open Payments. Medicare data from CMS Medicare Provider Utilization. All data is public and updated periodically.
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