Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Taggart Gauvain

Foot and Ankle Surgery Pearland, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1558612119 CMS profile 1388913

11049 Memorial Hermann Dr, Ste 200, Pearland, TX 77584

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General payments

$201,791

265 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$72,600

Paid to them · 4 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$25,253 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2024–2025

Through program year 2025, Taggart Gauvain of Pearland, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $201,791 across 265 general payments and $72,600 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $25,253 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 91st percentile of Foot and Ankle Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

11 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $64,950 70
2024 General $73,693 74
2024 Research $21,150 1
2023 General $23,685 32
2023 Research $36,900 1
2022 General $22,149 31
2022 Research $8,850 1
2021 General $13,382 21
2021 Research $5,700 1
2020 General $1,821 7
2019 General $2,110 30

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Taggart Gauvain
  • Foot and Ankle Surgery median
  • Middle half of Foot and Ankle Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Taggart Gauvain were reported at $64,950. Among 650 Foot and Ankle Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $1,183 and the middle half received between $267 and $6,309.

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Year Taggart Gauvain Foot and Ankle Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $2,110 $1,327 $279–$5,421 $163
2020 $1,821 $795 $121–$3,473 $114
2021 $13,382 $1,289 $201–$4,963 $132
2022 $22,149 $1,539 $270–$6,067 $149
2023 $23,685 $1,117 $257–$5,264 $160
2024 $73,693 $1,064 $235–$4,944 $164
2025 $64,950 $1,183 $267–$6,309 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. International Life Sciences $77,281 23 payments
  2. Linvatec Corporation $36,185 26 payments
  3. Stryker Corporation $33,188 70 payments
  4. Vilex in Tennessee, Inc. $32,838 31 payments
  5. In2Bones USA, LLC $10,574 15 payments
  6. Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC $2,218 5 payments
  7. Medinc of Texas $2,189 14 payments
  8. Extremity Medical $855 1 payment
  9. Royal Biologics $693 2 payments
  10. Wright Medical Technology, Inc. $676 15 payments
  11. Other $5,094 63 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $142,371 40 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $34,730 52 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $16,153 166 payments
  4. Royalty or License $2,837 4 payments
  5. Grant $2,500 1 payment
  6. Honoraria $2,000 1 payment
  7. Education $1,200 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. FLEXBAND Orthopaedics $45,862 23 payments
  2. MILD DEVICE KIT $18,810 3 payments
  3. NEOSPAN $16,622 10 payments
  4. Next Gen Ankle $15,062 12 payments
  5. HINTERMANN $13,343 6 payments
  6. 7 X 23MM CITRELOCK IMPLANT $12,179 7 payments
  7. CITREFIX $11,385 8 payments
  8. CoLink $10,445 14 payments
  9. FLEXBAND $10,250 2 payments
  10. FLEXBAND Devices $9,300 1 payment
  11. Other $51,048 171 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Skye Orthobiologics LLC $72,600 4 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 6 drugs

Part D claims

284

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$1,700

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

35.9%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 55 $709
Ondansetron Odt Ondansetron Brand 47 $377
Tramadol Hcl Generic 58 $244
Cephalexin Generic 43 $163
Meloxicam Generic 62 $144
Methylprednisolone Generic 19 $64

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 62 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$51,931

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

159

Average age 73

Services billed

573

97 women, 62 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Diabetes 34%
Ischemic heart disease 31%
Depression 28%
Chronic kidney disease 26%
Osteoporosis 19%
Heart failure 16%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

269 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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