Walton Taylor, MD
Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1063455533
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $363,025 of the $369,060 with a category attached, or 98.4%. Impedimed, Inc. accounts for 85.5% of it on its own, with 29 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery clinicians in TX 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.
Across 95 payments — averaging $3884.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Impedimed, Inc.$316K
- Icad, Inc$47K
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$2K
- Leica Microsystems Inc.$2K
- Endomagnetics Ltd$1K
- Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.$471
- plus $1K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$363,02598%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,6680%
- Food & beverage$4,3671%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Impedimed, Inc. | 12 | $315,539 |
| Icad, Inc | 17 | $46,789 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $1,900 |
| Leica Microsystems Inc. | 2 | $1,694 |
| Endomagnetics Ltd | 6 | $1,187 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 10 | $471 |
| Stryker | 3 | $177 |
| Merck | 7 | $173 |
| Axogen | 1 | $145 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $143 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 5 | $95 |
| BD | 1 | $89 |
| Molli Surgical (US) Inc | 1 | $81 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $79 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $55 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $49 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $48 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $46 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $36 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $20 |
| Prescient Surgical | 1 | $19 |
| Vertex | 1 | $18 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $18 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Mammography-Powerlook AMP$26,250
- AXXENT SURFACE CONTROLLER$20,539
- HTX-011$1,900
- Magseed$1,237
- Magtrace$668
- myRisk$332
- MOLLI$143
How this compares
$369,060 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 93 | $516 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 20 | $329 |
| Anastrozole | 11 | $145 |
| Cephalexin | 21 | $115 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Dallas
- Sachin KukrejaDallas$640K
- Steven LeedsDallas$193K
- Aaron HoffmanDallas$185K
- Lam leDallas$180K
- Bola AladegbamiDallas$91K
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
- Steven FassAustin$989K
- Vineet ChoudhryAustin$851K
- Andy HawthorneRound Rock$843K
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.