Has Bert Tardieu, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,333 in general payments to Bert Tardieu, MD across 27 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Bert Tardieu, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Bert Tardieu, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Bert Tardieu, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Salinas, CANPI 1003855289

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,646 of the $2,333 with a category attached, or 70.6%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 81.2% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $827 and has fallen 61.2% since, to $321 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $2,444.

$2,333in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 27 payments — averaging $86.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$2K
Brainlab, Inc.$213
Stryker$182
Merck$22
Bioventus LLC$21

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,64671%
Food & beverage$68729%

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
Zimmer Biomet	21	$1,895
Brainlab, Inc.	1	$213
Stryker	3	$182
Merck	1	$22
Bioventus LLC	1	$21

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.

How this compares

$2,333 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$206,808

Medicare patients

411

Services billed

11,086

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
Meloxicam	319	$863
Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium	13	$496
Tramadol Hcl	69	$201
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	20	$187
Oxycodone Hcl	33	$166
Pantoprazole Sodium	25	$150

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Salinas

Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
Robert GorabOrange$13.6M
Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
Nirav AminPlacentia$5.6M
Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
Jay LiebermanLos Angeles$4.8M
Peter NewtonSan Diego$4.2M
Sigurd BervenSan Francisco$4.1M

See the full list for California →

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.

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