Andres Taleisnik, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Orange, CANPI 1396798195
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,737 of the $2,799 with a category attached, or 62.1%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Mentor Worldwide LLC at 42.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,408 and has fallen 88.2% since, to $167 in 2025.
Across 54 payments — averaging $51.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$1K
- Stryker$308
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$305
- Smith+Nephew$153
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$104
- Bioventus LLC$92
- plus $658 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,73762%
- Education$903%
- Gifts$97235%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 6 | $1,179 |
| Stryker | 3 | $308 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $305 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $153 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 7 | $104 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $92 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $81 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $59 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $55 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $48 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Axogen | 2 | $35 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $28 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $27 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $25 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $21 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Amgen | 1 | $16 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- VARIAX$172
- GRAFIX PL$132
- MemoryGel Breast Implants$121
How this compares
$2,799 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 76 surgery of the hand providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 68 | $391 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in Orange
- Nicole ConklingOrange$14K
- James ColemanOrange$9K
- Bauback SafaSan Francisco$172K
- Emily Perezla Mirada$56K
- Joshua GluckVentura$26K
- Howard SutkinLos Gatos$22K
- Aaron BergerOakland$14K
- Marie DuschSanta Maria$11K
- Andre IshakOxnard$11K
- Alfonso CamberosSan Diego$10K
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.