Richard Tallarico, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · East Syracuse, NYNPI 1669423190
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $116,963 of the $154,528 with a category attached, or 75.7%. Stryker accounts for 68.3% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 145 payments — averaging $1065.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$105K
- Boston Scientific$22K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$21K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$5K
- Globus Medical$998
- Johnson & Johnson$336
- plus $179 from 2 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $5000.00 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.
- Boston Scientific$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$116,96376%
- Speaking & faculty fees$17,05011%
- Travel & lodging$14,1069%
- Food & beverage$6,1914%
- Education$2180%
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 | 93 | $105,469 |
| Boston Scientific | 15 | $21,683 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 14 | $20,660 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 7 | $5,204 |
| Globus Medical | 8 | $998 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $336 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
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.
- SERRATO$35,622
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$27,006
- AIRO$22,750
- NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$22,700
- XIA$22,635
- MESA SPINAL SYSTEM$21,450
- EVEREST$21,000
- MESA$20,324
- XIA 3$19,670
- OASYS$18,850
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$17,325
- CAPRI$15,849
- MESA RAIL$14,000
- Other - Miscellaneous$4,535
- SUPERION$4,246
- PELVIS II$3,500
- OZARK CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$1,250
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$1,250
- CONDUIT$1,043
- MAKO$1,000
How this compares
$154,528 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 161 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New York.
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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.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in East Syracuse
- Hansen YuanSyracuse$31.7M
- Frank SchwabNew York$5.1M
- Han KimNew York$3.9M
- Todd AlbertNew York$2.7M
- Jeffrey SpivakNew York$1.3M
- Aaron BucklandNew York$1M
- Seth NeubardtWhite Plains$902K
- Sheeraz QureshiNew York$828K
- Jeffrey GoldsteinNew York$765K
- Fabien BitanNew York$624K
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.