Oliver Tannous, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · San Diego, CANPI 1285952655
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $468,801 of the $566,064 with a category attached, or 82.8%. Medacta USA, Inc. accounts for 74.3% of it on its own, with 29 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $158,200, more than ten times the $3,488 reported in 2019.
Across 473 payments — averaging $1196.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$421K
- Innovasis Inc$49K
- Baxter Healthcare$19K
- Precision Spine, Inc.$17K
- Centinel Spine, LLC$16K
- Cerapedics Inc.$15K
- plus $30K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$468,80183%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5000%
- Travel & lodging$72,67913%
- Food & beverage$23,5074%
- Education$5770%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 245 | $420,660 |
| Innovasis Inc | 38 | $48,625 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 24 | $18,933 |
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 10 | $16,753 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 8 | $15,683 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 16 | $15,209 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 10 | $8,145 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 23 | $6,507 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 30 | $3,378 |
| 4web, Inc. | 6 | $3,322 |
| Stryker | 17 | $2,090 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 12 | $1,573 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 7 | $786 |
| Spineology Inc. | 2 | $646 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 2 | $587 |
| Abbott | 4 | $556 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 2 | $498 |
| Medicrea USA, Corp. | 1 | $342 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $288 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $262 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $254 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $178 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $173 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $143 |
| Stability Biologics, LLC | 1 | $132 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 1 | $77 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $21 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- MYSPINE$266,973
- MUST$34,680
- MECTALIF$28,435
- Mecta-C Cervical Cages$21,350
- FLOSEAL$18,571
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$14,934
- MUST MINI Set Screw$10,053
- MagnetOs$7,922
- PRODISC C VIVO$6,588
- PRODISC C$6,069
- SHURFIT LUMBAR INTERBODY$5,703
- ShurFit ACIF System$5,000
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$3,241
- SLIMPLICITY HP$3,000
- PRODISC L$2,977
- Reform Ti Mod System$2,500
- ShurFit Posterior System$2,500
- Slimplicity Plus System$2,500
- CORTICAL SCREW HYBRID$2,000
- REFORM MIDLINE CORTICAL SCREW SYSTEM$2,000
How this compares
$566,064 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 288 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lidocaine | 34 | $3,204 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 45 | $455 |
| Gabapentin | 38 | $430 |
| Meloxicam | 12 | $44 |
| Alprazolam | 13 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in San Diego
- Choll KimSan Diego$4M
- Ramin RaiszadehSan Diego$785K
- Jean-Jacques AbitbolSan Diego$595K
- Richard AllenSan Diego$471K
- Neil TayyabSan Diego$283K
- Vinko ZlomislicSan Diego$206K
- Hyun BaeSanta Monica$56.8M
- Stacey BedermanOrange$3.7M
- Gregory Mundisla Jolla$3.3M
- Paul SlosarDaly City$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.