Has Samuel Taylor, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $254,699 in general payments to Samuel Taylor, MD across 185 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 Samuel Taylor, 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 Samuel Taylor, 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.

Samuel Taylor, MD

Sports Medicine · New York, NYNPI 1134388697

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $233,550 of the $254,699 with a category attached, or 91.7%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 96.1% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among sports medicine clinicians in NY 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.

$254,699in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 185 payments — averaging $1376.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Encore Medical, LP$245K
Smith+Nephew$8K
KCI USA, Inc.$600
Exactech, Inc.$288
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$237
Suvon Surgical LLC$171
plus $184 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$233,55092%
Speaking & faculty fees$2,2001%
Travel & lodging$15,1536%
Food & beverage$3,7871%
Education$80%

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	158	$244,753
Smith+Nephew	17	$8,467
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$600
Exactech, Inc.	2	$288
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$237
Suvon Surgical LLC	1	$171
Stryker	1	$109
Arthrex	2	$48
Restor3d, Inc.	1	$27

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$234,270
DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$34,410
DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$33,930
DJO Surgical Match Point System$11,197
Healicoil$2,579
SPATIAL FRAME$2,200
Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$2,200
PREVENA$600
EQUINOXE$288
Endobutton$276
Mini-Open Latarjet$276
Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$276
Zilretta$237
Q-FIX$122
AEQUALIS$109

How this compares

$254,699 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 403 sports medicine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$295,932

Medicare patients

423

Services billed

1,651

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 sports medicine in New York

Gregory DifeliceNew York$1.8M
Theodore BlaineNew York$765K
Robert MeislinNew York$720K
Danyal NawabiNew York$592K
Riley WilliamsNew York$512K
Bryan KellyNew York$409K
Eric StraussNew York$241K
Michael FuNew York$210K
Michael AlaiaNew York$207K
Matthew TaoNew York$160K

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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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