Misha Tavaf, DPM
Podiatrist · Palo Alto, CANPI 1699487215
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,377 of the $6,901 with a category attached, or 63.4%. It is spread thinly across 26 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.3%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,363, 2.5 times the $1,343 reported in 2022.
Across 93 payments — averaging $74.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Evolution Surgical, Inc$1K
- Stryker$829
- Smith+Nephew$671
- Johnson & Johnson$385
- Amgen$269
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,32419%
- Food & beverage$4,37763%
- Education$1,20017%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $1,401 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 3 | $1,260 |
| Stryker | 12 | $829 |
| Smith+Nephew | 17 | $671 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $385 |
| Amgen | 9 | $269 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 4 | $245 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 5 | $224 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $222 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $213 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $196 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $177 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 2 | $155 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $111 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 3 | $84 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $81 |
| Vertex | 3 | $65 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $31 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- MOTOBAND$1,286
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$693
- Grafix$418
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$360
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$298
- COLLAGENASE SANTYL$295
- Stravix$270
- VANTAGE$213
- Lapiplasty System$190
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$173
- VersaWrap$149
- RECELL$135
- Qutenza$128
- KRYSTEXXA$125
- STRAVIX PL$122
- GRAFIX PL$122
- PURAPLY WOUND MATRIX$121
- MINIBUNION$112
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$111
How this compares
$6,901 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 721 podiatrist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ciclopirox | 11 | $324 |
| Cephalexin | 11 | $72 |
| Meloxicam | 19 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other podiatrist in Palo Alto
- Shannon RushPleasanton$1.9M
- Babak BaravarianSanta Monica$1.1M
- Robert KleimanCalexico$913K
- Bruce LawrenceOceanside$810K
- David ArmstrongLos Angeles$695K
- Philip WrotslavskyPoway$269K
- Travis WestermeyerEncinitas$158K
- Adrienne EstesPomona$129K
- Ronald LiebermanEncinitas$109K
- Matthew DoyleMountain View$92K
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.