Michael Taunton, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Rochester, MNNPI 1992784854
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,742,458 of the $3,530,758 with a category attached, or 77.7%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 98.4% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,596,843, 3.5 times the $456,191 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MN 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.
Across 623 payments — averaging $5667.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Encore Medical, LP$3.5M
- DJO, LLC$46K
- Insight Medical Systems, Inc.$12K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$675
- Johnson & Johnson$106
- Onkos Surgical, Inc.$105
- plus $74 from 2 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $2185.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$14K
- Stryker$1K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,742,45878%
- Consulting fees$696,32520%
- Travel & lodging$86,6752%
- Food & beverage$5,3000%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Encore Medical, LP | 592 | $3,472,652 |
| DJO, LLC | 14 | $45,629 |
| Insight Medical Systems, Inc. | 12 | $11,517 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $675 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $106 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $48 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $25 |
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.
- DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$1,287,224
- DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Knee$1,217,314
- DJO SURGICAL$705,041
- DJO Surgical Empowr Acetabular Cup$440,075
- DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$59,115
- DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Hip$38,297
- PROCARE$34,085
- PROCARE Bracing & Supports$11,521
- AIRCAST Bracing & Supports$11,521
- ARVIS$11,517
- DJO Surgical 3DKnee System$8,660
- DJO Surgical CLP Hip System$4,614
- DJO Surgical Foundation Hip System$1,397
- DJO Surgical FMP Acetabular System$1,240
- ACTIS$675
- DJO Surgical Cobalt HV Bone Cement$114
- ATTUNE$106
- ELEOS LIMB SALVAGE SYSTEM$105
How this compares
$3,530,758 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 533 orthopaedic surgery providers in Minnesota.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Rochester
- Daniel BerryRochester$21.5M
- Mark PagnanoRochester$14.8M
- Robert TrousdaleRochester$12.2M
- John SperlingRochester$12.2M
- Shawn O'DriscollRochester$10.5M
- David LewallenRochester$8M
- Rafael SierraRochester$4.9M
- Joaquin Sanchez-SoteloRochester$4M
- Arlen HanssenRochester$3.2M
- Matthew AbdelRochester$3.1M
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.