Has Oscar Taunton, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $315,273 in general payments to Oscar Taunton, MD across 164 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 Oscar Taunton, 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 Oscar Taunton, 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.

Oscar Taunton, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Bedford, TXNPI 1033196050

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $251,339 of the $315,273 with a category attached, or 79.7%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Fuse Medical, Inc. at 42.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $140,765 and has fallen 80.4% since, to $27,522 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TX 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.

$315,273in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 164 payments — averaging $1922.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Fuse Medical, Inc.$134K
Exactech, Inc.$69K
Zimmer Biomet$45K
Omnilife Science, Inc$36K
Corin USA$17K
Smith+Nephew$12K
plus $2K from 4 others

$132,992in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $5541.33 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.

American Regent$64K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$40K
Zimmer Biomet$9K
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$8K
Regeneron$7K
Pfizer$3K
plus $2K from 1 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$44,71814%
Consulting fees$251,33980%
Travel & lodging$14,4535%
Food & beverage$4,7632%

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
Fuse Medical, Inc.	12	$133,806
Exactech, Inc.	53	$69,279
Zimmer Biomet	28	$44,718
Omnilife Science, Inc	31	$36,278
Corin USA	18	$17,388
Smith+Nephew	15	$11,984
Advita Ortho, LLC	2	$1,563
CPM Medical Consultants, LLC	2	$167
Pylant Medical	2	$70
Stryker	1	$20

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.

Arcos$33,200
OMNIBotics 3.0$26,799
ALTEON$22,727
OPTETRAK$12,760
Arcos Revision Hip Instrumentation$11,518
TRULIANT$10,258
Journey II$4,700
TRIVERSE MODULAR TRAY$3,450
Journey II BCS$2,678
Journey II CR$2,500
LEGION TKS$2,500
VISIONAIRE FastPak$2,500
NOVATION HIP$574
JII Unicondylar Knee System$462
ZUK Uni$329
Sterizo Hip$141
Journey Uni$138

How this compares

$315,273 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$517,871

Medicare patients

721

Services billed

4,551

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
XareltoRivaroxaban	88	$53,869
EliquisApixaban	26	$16,947
Oxycodone Hcl	441	$5,352
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	334	$2,890
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	153	$1,999
Naproxen	26	$1,542
Methylprednisolone	115	$753
Tramadol Hcl	98	$383
Cephalexin	47	$325
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	16	$182
Gabapentin	25	$121
Diazepam	15	$17

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Bedford

Howard HarrisBedford$375K
Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
Robert GrahamAustin$6.3M
Richard JonesDallas$6.3M
Stefan KreuzerHouston$6.2M
Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M
Stephen IncavoHouston$4.3M
Thomas EdwardsHouston$4.1M
James BrodskyDallas$2.5M

See the full list for Texas →

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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