Casey Taber, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · San Antonio, TXNPI 1972711463
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $82,011 of the $98,230 with a category attached, or 83.5%. Stryker accounts for 99.7% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $28,927 and has fallen 94.7% since, to $1,533 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 139 payments — averaging $706.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$98K
- Johnson & Johnson$85
- Biocomposites Inc$40
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$34
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$26
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$22
- plus $84 from 5 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $1000.00 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.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$82,01183%
- Travel & lodging$10,93511%
- Food & beverage$5,2835%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 124 | $97,939 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $85 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $40 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $21 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $9 |
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
$98,230 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.
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 | 234 | $2,748 |
| Pregabalin | 108 | $1,294 |
| Celecoxib | 107 | $1,186 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 51 | $473 |
| Ibuprofen | 31 | $322 |
| Methylprednisolone | 34 | $216 |
| Gabapentin | 27 | $199 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 39 | $147 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 13 | $119 |
| Naproxen | 12 | $87 |
| Cephalexin | 13 | $80 |
| Amoxicillin | 83 | $60 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in San Antonio
- Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
- Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M
- Ravi KariaSan Antonio$1.1M
- Charles RockwoodSan Antonio$975K
- Christopher ChaputSan Antonio$959K
- Frank ButtacavoliSan Antonio$866K
- Robert HartzlerSan Antonio$654K
- Bernard MorreySan Antonio$639K
- Animesh AgarwalSan Antonio$408K
- Ralph GarzaSan Antonio$390K
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.