Brian James Baliwas
Dentist · San Francisco, CANPI 1023427150
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $95,896 of the $127,496 with a category attached, or 75.2%. Carestream Dental, LLC accounts for 72.1% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among dentist clinicians in CA 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 133 payments — averaging $958.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Carestream Dental, LLC$92K
- DMG America LLC$7K
- Meisinger USA, LLC$5K
- Bisco, Inc.$5K
- Ivoclar Vivadent, Inc.$4K
- Kuraray America Inc.$4K
- plus $11K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$95,89675%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,7506%
- Travel & lodging$3,4263%
- Food & beverage$4,5734%
- Education$6,6925%
- Gifts$9,0417%
- Entertainment$1090%
- Other$80%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Carestream Dental, LLC | 5 | $91,904 |
| DMG America LLC | 11 | $6,692 |
| Meisinger USA, LLC | 46 | $5,224 |
| Bisco, Inc. | 3 | $4,540 |
| Ivoclar Vivadent, Inc. | 15 | $4,121 |
| Kuraray America Inc. | 6 | $3,746 |
| Solventum Corporation | 6 | $3,700 |
| GC America Inc. | 12 | $3,165 |
| 3M Company | 8 | $2,497 |
| Garrison Dental Solutions | 1 | $750 |
| Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc. | 11 | $611 |
| Salvin Dental Specialties, Inc. | 1 | $206 |
| Straumann USA LLC | 1 | $163 |
| Align Technology, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Shofu Dental Corp | 1 | $43 |
| NSK America Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Dentsply Sirona Inc | 1 | $22 |
| VOCO America Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- 3M Filtek$2,000
- Bluephase PowerCure & System Kit Mixed$1,937
- Clarity Aligners$1,700
- ECOSITE BULK FILL SAFETIP INTRO KIT$1,593
- GC Reline$1,142
- KOOLINER$1,142
- COE-SOFT$1,142
- ECOSITE BULK FILL SYRINGE INTRO KIT$1,134
- DMG COMPOSITE GUN$1,134
- IONOSIT BASELINER SYRINGE PACK$1,134
- CONSTIC A2$1,134
- PERMACEM 2.0 TRANSPARENT$1,072
- LUXABOND TOTAL ETCH INTRO KIT$1,072
- KOLORZ TOPICAL ANESTHETIC GEL MINT$1,072
- KOLORZ TOPICAL ANESTHETIC GEL BLUE RASPBERRY$1,072
- ZEKRYA KIT$1,072
- HMG21RX-010-FG$869
- G-aenial$853
- G-CEM$853
- TYPE 50 4:1/10:1 APPLICATOR GUN$822
How this compares
$127,496 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 9,550 dentist providers in California.
Other dentist in San Francisco
- Jeff BruciaSan Francisco$132K
- Douglas YoungSan Francisco$100K
- Todd EngelLadera Ranch$4.2M
- Jedediah HussThousand Oaks$1.3M
- John DiponzianoSan Leandro$904K
- Jeffrey RohdeSanta Barbara$593K
- Troy SchueddingWalnut Creek$468K
- Todd SnyderLaguna Niguel$427K
- Saima HasnainSacramento$415K
- August de OliveiraEncino$332K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.