Has Tally Lassiter, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $141,875 in general payments to Tally Lassiter, MD across 235 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 Tally Lassiter, 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 Tally Lassiter, 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.

Tally Lassiter, MD

Sports Medicine · Oneonta, NYNPI 1124129119

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (58.8%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 37.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $46,489, 9.2 times the $5,075 reported in 2019. 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.

$141,875in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 235 payments — averaging $603.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$53K
Lima USA, Inc.$42K
Encore Medical, LP$24K
Limacorporate S.p.a.$8K
Southtech Orthopedics$7K
Arthrex$5K
plus $4K from 11 others

$317,742in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $7943.55 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.

Stryker$156K
Exactech, Inc.$154K
Advita Ortho, LLC$8K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$83,41459%
Speaking & faculty fees$2,0001%
Travel & lodging$37,28526%
Food & beverage$12,7299%
Education$6,3754%
Entertainment$720%

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(2 entities)	105	$52,552
Lima USA, Inc.	18	$42,199
Encore Medical, LP	15	$23,746
Limacorporate S.p.a.	12	$8,305
Southtech Orthopedics	11	$6,672
Arthrex	41	$4,794
Restor3d, Inc.	1	$2,134
Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC	17	$513
Zimmer Biomet	2	$142
Johnson & Johnson	2	$134
Smith+Nephew	2	$133
Aesculap Biologics, LLC	3	$113
Exactech, Inc.	1	$105
Medtronic	2	$89
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.	1	$89
Arthrosurface Incorporated	1	$81
Vericel Corporation	1	$72

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$111,121
AEQUALIS PERFORM$50,638
SMR Shoulder$42,533
SIMPLICITI$33,019
BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$27,699
AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$17,663
AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$11,538
Delta Cup$8,810
LANTERN SURGICAL ASSISTANT$8,112
Product Portfolio$7,333
TORNIER FLEX$1,500
BLUEPRINT PSI SYSTEM$1,479
Promade$698
PHYSICA CR$698
AEQUALIS FLEX REVIVE$291
Comprehensive Shoulder System$128
Fast-Fix 360$111
Meniscal Root Repair System$111
ORTHOLOC$111
EQUINOXE$105

How this compares

$141,875 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

$257,836

Medicare patients

480

Services billed

2,251

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
Pantoprazole Sodium	128	$752
Celecoxib	25	$636
Ondansetron Hcl	150	$389
Ibuprofen	89	$310
Doxycycline Hyclate	22	$242
Oxycodone Hcl	109	$240
Gabapentin	35	$229
Meloxicam	55	$173
Methylprednisolone	22	$128
Tramadol Hcl	57	$110
Naproxen	27	$101
Tizanidine Hcl	14	$96
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	19	$63
IbuIbuprofen	12	$28

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other sports medicine in Oneonta

Steven LeeNyc$3.3M
James PaciWoodbury$2.1M
Gregory DifeliceNew York$1.8M
Ilya VoloshinRochester$786K
Theodore BlaineNew York$765K
Robert MeislinNew York$720K
Danyal NawabiNew York$592K
Stephen NicholasNyc$586K
Riley WilliamsNew York$512K
Bryan KellyNew York$409K

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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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