Has John van Taunay, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,379 in general payments to John van Taunay, MD across 23 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 John van Taunay, 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 John van Taunay, 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.

John van Taunay, MD

Hospitalist · Seattle, WANPI 1457746539

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 23 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 10 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among hospitalist clinicians in WA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$1,379in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 23 payments — averaging $59.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Shockwave Medical, Inc$309
Edwards Lifesciences$275
Abbott$170
Teleflex LLC$147
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$125
Boston Scientific$103
plus $250 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,379100%

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
Shockwave Medical, Inc	3	$309
Edwards Lifesciences	2	$275
Abbott	3	$170
Teleflex LLC	1	$147
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	4	$125
Boston Scientific	2	$103
Penumbra, Inc.	1	$100
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.	2	$63
Medtronic	3	$52
Chiesi USA, Inc.	2	$34

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

$1,379 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 661 hospitalist providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$54,853

Medicare patients

325

Services billed

686

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
EliquisApixaban	27	$33,300
JardianceEmpagliflozin	19	$22,144
XareltoRivaroxaban	11	$14,861
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	13	$14,284
Metoprolol Succinate	58	$583
Atorvastatin Calcium	45	$424
Potassium Chloride	14	$183
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate	17	$164
Spironolactone	26	$144
Nitroglycerin	11	$134
Rosuvastatin Calcium	17	$134
Losartan-HydrochlorothiazideLosartan/Hydrochlorothiazide	13	$105
Amlodipine Besylate	17	$86
Carvedilol	26	$82
Losartan Potassium	16	$81

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hospitalist in Seattle

James BarnesSeattle$12K
Usman NaseerSeattle$8K
Bryce JohnsonSeattle$4K
Benjamin WolpawSeattle$3K
Preetham KumarSeattle$1K
Neha DeshpandeSeattle$1K
Amrit LambaSeattle$884
Danh NgoSeattle$705
Jay BrahmbhattSeattle$700
Andrew WhiteSeattle$695

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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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