Taro Kaibara, MD
Neurological Surgery · Chandler, AZNPI 1467417444
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (34.4%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 80.7% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $21,401 and has fallen 85.2% since, to $3,174 in 2025.
Across 190 payments — averaging $313.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$48K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$5K
- Spineology Inc.$2K
- Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$901
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$646
- plus $2K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$20,48334%
- Speaking & faculty fees$17,96030%
- Travel & lodging$11,45619%
- Food & beverage$9,69816%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 106 | $48,116 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 39 | $4,729 |
| Spineology Inc. | 3 | $1,675 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 5 | $1,551 |
| Abbott | 7 | $901 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 5 | $646 |
| Stryker | 12 | $510 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 3 | $506 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 2 | $285 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $155 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $151 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $136 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $88 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $19 |
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.
- O-ARM$15,216
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$10,635
- StealthStation$7,577
- O-ARM-Spine$4,395
- INFINITY OCT System$2,531
- O-ARM-ST$2,500
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,601
- OsteoCentric 4.0 x 130mm LOCKING BONE SCREW FASTENER ST$1,516
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$1,404
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$1,081
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$1,011
- Invictus MIS$641
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$637
- NorthStar$337
- 7D Surgical FLASH Frame$337
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$287
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$285
- OptiMesh Interbody Fusion System$271
- Mariner$228
- INFINITY OCCIPITOCERVICAL UPPER THORACIC SYSTEM$198
How this compares
$59,597 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 173 neurological surgery providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 14 | $114 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Chandler
- Steve ChangChandler$1.1M
- Richard WilliamsonChandler$22K
- Robert SpetzlerPhoenix$12.8M
- Juan UribePhoenix$6.7M
- Stephen PapadopoulosPhoenix$6M
- Volker SonntagPhoenix$2M
- Richard ChuaTucson$1.3M
- Jay TurnerPhoenix$1.2M
- Frederick MarcianoScottsdale$809K
- Michael LawtonPhoenix$761K
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.