Has Stanley Tao received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,200 in general payments to Stanley Tao across 91 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 Stanley Tao 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 Stanley Tao 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.

Stanley Tao

Orthopaedic Surgery · Roswell, GANPI 1396702437

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (36.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by United Orthopedics LLC at 30.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,474 and has fallen 77.2% since, to $793 in 2024.

$10,200in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 91 payments — averaging $112.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

United Orthopedics LLC$3K
Linvatec Corporation$2K
Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$1K
Arthrex$904
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$881
Smith+Nephew$279
plus $1K from 19 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,03430%
Food & beverage$3,42234%
Education$3,74437%

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
United Orthopedics LLC	4	$3,099
Linvatec Corporation	11	$2,202
Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC	3	$1,372
Arthrex	12	$904
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	6	$881
Smith+Nephew	5	$279
Organogenesis Inc.	6	$232
Stryker	2	$171
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	6	$158
Zimmer Biomet	2	$154
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	10	$134
Amgen(2 entities)	2	$118
Orthogenrx Inc.	5	$90
Amniox Medical, Inc.	1	$83
Bioventus LLC	4	$61
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	2	$47
ERMI LLC	1	$46
Convatec Inc.	2	$30
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$29
Abbott	1	$23
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$22
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$18
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	1	$18
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	1	$16
Shire North American Group 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.

How this compares

$10,200 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 654 orthopaedic surgery providers in Georgia.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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