Joseph Tauro, MD
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Toms River, NJNPI 1477662567
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $42,670 of the $51,079 with a category attached, or 83.5%. Linvatec Corporation accounts for 94.5% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $13,500 and has fallen 90.9% since, to $1,226 in 2025.
Across 50 payments — averaging $1021.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Linvatec Corporation$48K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$353
- Smith+Nephew$181
- Seapearl East, Inc$151
- Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC$38
- plus $64 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$42,67084%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,2502%
- Travel & lodging$5,73111%
- Food & beverage$1,4293%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Linvatec Corporation | 32 | $48,290 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 6 | $2,001 |
| Stryker | 3 | $353 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $181 |
| Seapearl East, Inc | 2 | $151 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $33 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
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.
- LINVATEC SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY$18,544
- BioBrace 23mm$6,397
- LINVATEC KNEE PRESERVATION SYSTEM$5,000
- ANCHOR$4,500
- Y-KNOT$2,750
- ACUMED$2,500
- PRESSFT$2,250
- SHOULDER MANUAL INSTRUMENTS$1,250
- LINVATEC EXTREMITIES$1,250
- LINVATEC ARTHROSCOPY$1,250
- PRIMARY SHOULDER$1,196
- LINVATEC BURS AND BLADES$1,000
- KNEE BIOLOGICS$750
- CROSSFT$750
- MECTA$537
- REVERSE SHOULDER$233
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$161
- INSPACE$148
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$126
- Journey II$126
How this compares
$51,079 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 39 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in New Jersey.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 57 | $182 |
| Meloxicam | 11 | $8 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Toms River
- Robert CloskeyToms River$3K
- Atul KamathManasquan$4M
- Alfred TriaSomerset$582K
- John DundonHackettstown$573K
- Ismar DizdarevicRidgewood$368K
- David FeldmanEnglewood$335K
- Mark PizzurroRidgewood$239K
- Jeffrey LearyNew Providence$148K
- Timothy HendersonWayne$140K
- Anthony CostaEatontown$95K
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.