Has Mehul Taylor, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $503 in general payments to Mehul Taylor, MD across 9 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 Mehul Taylor, 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 Mehul Taylor, 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.

Mehul Taylor, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Palmdale, CANPI 1205037561

Payments from drug & device makers

$503in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 9 payments — averaging $55.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$195
Smith+Nephew$156
Medtronic$68
Bioventus LLC$61
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$24

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$503100%

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
Stryker	2	$195
Smith+Nephew	2	$156
Medtronic	2	$68
Bioventus LLC	2	$61
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$24

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.

SALVATION$175
REAL INTELLIGENCE$132

How this compares

$503 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$567,320

Medicare patients

755

Services billed

21,470

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	61	$555
Meloxicam	57	$157
Gabapentin	32	$138
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	12	$136
Methylprednisolone	14	$91
Amoxicillin	29	$50
Tramadol Hcl	13	$33

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Palmdale

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Robert GorabOrange$14.5M
Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
Peter NewtonSan Diego$7M
Nirav AminPlacentia$5.8M
Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
Jay LiebermanLos Angeles$4.8M
Sigurd BervenSan Francisco$4.1M

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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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