Amir Tahernia, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Rancho Mirage, CANPI 1902819477
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $170,569 of the $203,825 with a category attached, or 83.7%. Fuse Medical, Inc. accounts for 80.4% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $68,526 and has fallen 98.3% since, to $1,144 in 2025.
Across 81 payments — averaging $2516.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Fuse Medical, Inc.$164K
- Republic Spine$15K
- Arthrex$10K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$7K
- Globus Medical$5K
- Stryker$908
- plus $2K from 10 others
Across 32 payments — averaging $4285.96 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Premia Spine, Ltd.$107K
- Spineart SA$30K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$27,60114%
- Consulting fees$170,56984%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6380%
- Travel & lodging$2,8781%
- Food & beverage$2,1401%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Fuse Medical, Inc. | 15 | $163,903 |
| Republic Spine | 2 | $14,583 |
| Arthrex | 10 | $9,540 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 16 | $7,422 |
| Globus Medical | 11 | $5,318 |
| Stryker | 11 | $908 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $421 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 1 | $333 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 3 | $321 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 5 | $312 |
| Abbott | 1 | $178 |
| CPM Medical Consultants, LLC | 1 | $150 |
| 4web, Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $134 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $124 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $38 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Hollywood$6,989
- SIGNATURE$5,284
- MAKO$620
- COMBOGESIC IV$421
- Hollywood NanoMetalene$365
- Blackhawk Cervical Spacer System$333
- Thunderbolt Minimally Invasive Pedicle Screw Systems$333
- VEO Lateral Interbody Fusion System$333
- Triton$333
- Stratofuse$333
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$178
- N/A$155
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$139
- iFuse Implant$134
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$124
- OTHER OTHER OTHER OTHER$104
How this compares
$203,825 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.
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Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 111 | $1,246 |
| Butalbital-Acetaminophen-CaffeButalb/Acetaminophen/Caffeine | 15 | $1,076 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 84 | $1,023 |
| Gabapentin | 124 | $972 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 131 | $482 |
| Pregabalin | 23 | $477 |
| Methylprednisolone | 60 | $418 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 71 | $145 |
| Cephalexin | 18 | $141 |
| Baclofen | 24 | $135 |
| Diazepam | 17 | $19 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Rancho Mirage
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$56.8M
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.3M
- Paul SlosarDaly City$3.1M
- Babak Barcohanavan Nuys$2.9M
- Neelakantan AnandLos Angeles$2.9M
- Sanjay KhuranaMarina del Rey$2.3M
- Neville AlleyneOceanside$2.2M
- Rick DelamarterSanta Monica$2.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.