Tarun Arora, MD
Neurological Surgery · San Francisco, CANPI 1538308275
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (37.5%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Spineart USA Inc accounts for 76.1% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 138 payments — averaging $299.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spineart USA Inc$31K
- Spineart SA$5K
- Cerapedics Inc.$2K
- Stryker$752
- Johnson & Johnson$352
- AstraZeneca$330
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$5,40013%
- Consulting fees$15,47537%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5004%
- Travel & lodging$11,21127%
- Food & beverage$7,65519%
- Education$580%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spineart USA Inc | 65 | $31,409 |
| Spineart SA | 9 | $5,400 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $1,666 |
| Stryker | 14 | $752 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 10 | $352 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $330 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $311 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 2 | $176 |
| Zap Surgical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $110 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Spineology Inc. | 3 | $107 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 3 | $87 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $82 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $59 |
| Ceribell, Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 2 | $39 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Abbott | 1 | $25 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- PERLA C - OCCIPITAL FIXATION$4,087
- Perla TL$3,530
- PERLA C$3,298
- i-FACTOR Putty$1,666
- Scarlet AL-T$862
- ROMEO 2 - CROSSLINK$806
- CURE ACP$500
- SACRLET AC-T INSTRUMENTATION$282
- UNID_PASS$196
- CREO Addition$162
- N/A$131
- VIPER$116
- SYMPHONY$116
- YUKON$100
- ANDEXXA$100
How this compares
$41,298 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 773 neurological surgery providers in California.
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.
Other neurological surgery in San Francisco
- Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
- Praveen MummaneniSan Francisco$1.1M
- Lee TanSan Francisco$682K
- Jang YoonSan Francisco$227K
- Larry KhooLos Angeles$2.8M
- Samy AbdouSan Diego$2.4M
- Bret AbshireMurrieta$2.3M
- William TaylorSan Diego$2.1M
- Tooraj GravoriEncino$2M
- Ali MesiwalaRancho Cucamonga$1.5M
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.