Christopher Taleghani, MD
Neurological Surgery · Hermitage, TNNPI 1992840813
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $73,200 of the $92,722 with a category attached, or 78.9%. Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation accounts for 86.8% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $49,321 and has fallen 92.3% since, to $3,808 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in TN 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 76 payments — averaging $1220.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$81K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$7K
- Si-bone, Inc.$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Globus Medical$213
- Native Surgical, LLC$109
- plus $100 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$73,20079%
- Consulting fees$13,32514%
- Travel & lodging$3,8114%
- Food & beverage$2,3853%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 24 | $80,508 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 13 | $6,869 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 18 | $2,827 |
| Medtronic | 12 | $2,095 |
| Globus Medical | 7 | $213 |
| Native Surgical, LLC | 1 | $109 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $100 |
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.
- NewPort$72,934
- Shoreline$6,565
- Cabo$6,357
- Mariner$6,188
- Physio-Stim$2,286
- Reef TA$1,875
- WaveForm TA$1,875
- iFuse Implant$1,569
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$1,187
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$649
- Cambria NanoMetalene$357
How this compares
$92,722 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 156 neurological surgery providers in Tennessee.
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 | 12 | $73 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Hermitage
- Christopher StoreyHermitage$59K
- Margaret MacgregorHermitage$30K
- Kevin FoleyMemphis$162.4M
- Maurice SmithMemphis$4.4M
- Brian OshaughnessyNashville$2.1M
- Adam ArthurMemphis$1.9M
- Paul ParkMemphis$1.2M
- Daniel HoitMemphis$607K
- David WilesChattanooga$315K
- Chine LoganNashville$309K
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.