Kevin Taliaferro
Orthopaedic Surgery · San Francisco, CANPI 1659613941
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (40.2%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 63.5% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 127 payments — averaging $149.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$12K
- Si-bone, Inc.$3K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Bioventus LLC$304
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$300
- Centinel Spine, LLC$292
- plus $997 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,50013%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,62540%
- Travel & lodging$1,6409%
- Food & beverage$7,19538%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 83 | $12,048 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $2,791 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 19 | $2,229 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $304 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $300 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 2 | $292 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 3 | $290 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 5 | $277 |
| Stryker | 2 | $172 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $132 |
| Baylis Medical Company Inc | 1 | $109 |
| Pinnacle, Inc | 1 | $17 |
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.
- UNID_PASS$5,069
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$3,500
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$2,500
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$964
- RISE$868
- Other - Miscellaneous$300
- PRODISC L$292
- FormaGraft$175
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$165
- Endoskeleton-L$146
- CD HORIZON$143
- INDEPENDENCE$142
- SOVEREIGN$142
- FORTIFY$138
- PASS-LP$137
- BoneScalpel$135
- NAV - SPINEMAP 3D NAVIGATION SOFTWARE AND INSTRUMENTATION$132
- AERO$132
- NAV -3INAVIGATION PLATFORM$132
- EXELCIUS$127
How this compares
$18,960 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.
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-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 20 | $192 |
| Methocarbamol | 16 | $170 |
| Meloxicam | 39 | $163 |
| Gabapentin | 16 | $136 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in San Francisco
- Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
- Sigurd BervenSan Francisco$4.1M
- Vedat DevirenSan Francisco$2.9M
- Eugene WolfSan Francisco$988K
- James KellySan Francisco$826K
- Alexander TheologisSan Francisco$719K
- Utku KandemirSan Francisco$484K
- Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
- Robert GorabOrange$13.6M
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
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.