Taha Faruqi, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Warrington, PANPI 1740636943
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $22,149 of the $33,500 with a category attached, or 66.1%. Globus Medical accounts for 75.5% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $26,187 and has fallen 93.4% since, to $1,741 in 2025.
Across 101 payments — averaging $331.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$25K
- Medtronic$4K
- Stryker$1K
- VB Spine LLC$724
- Pinnacle, Inc$617
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$292
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$22,14966%
- Travel & lodging$5,25916%
- Food & beverage$5,48516%
- Education$6072%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 10 | $25,285 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 39 | $4,244 |
| Stryker | 20 | $1,208 |
| VB Spine LLC | 5 | $724 |
| Pinnacle, Inc | 2 | $617 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 2 | $292 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $252 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $150 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $148 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $109 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $58 |
| Conformis, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Precision Medical Products Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $33 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $12 |
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.
- CALIBER$2,724
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$1,056
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$651
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$322
- IdentiTi$229
- TRAUMA$229
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$203
- ANATOMIC PEEK PTC CERVICAL FUSION SYSTEM$159
- Peri-Loc$150
- ELSA$144
- T2$141
- ELSA, ELSA AL/ATP$118
- PlasmaBlade$103
- nanoLOCK-L$103
- TISSEEL$102
- ALEUTIAN INTERBODY SYSTEMS$101
How this compares
$33,500 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 43 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Pennsylvania.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 177 | $885 |
| Celecoxib | 22 | $336 |
| Meloxicam | 119 | $148 |
| Methocarbamol | 37 | $93 |
| Gabapentin | 32 | $53 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 32 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Warrington
- Alan HilibrandBensalem$1.4M
- Joel TorrettiState College$1.1M
- Gregory BaileyState College$1.1M
- David AndersonBensalem$786K
- Jeffrey McConnellAllentown$509K
- Christopher HendersonDickson City$222K
- Joshua PahysPhiladelphia$213K
- David CasperPhiladelphia$195K
- Scott RushtonWynnewood$93K
- Eric EmanskiState College$88K
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.