Has Chad Gage received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $197,134 in general payments to Chad Gage across 198 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Chad Gage did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Chad Gage come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Chad Gage

Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics · Parker, CONPI 1972929560

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $128,983 of the $197,134 with a category attached, or 65.4%. Envista Holdings Corporation accounts for 94.8% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $95,850, more than ten times the $139 reported in 2020. Among orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics clinicians in CO 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.

$197,134in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 198 payments — averaging $995.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Envista Holdings Corporation$187K
Ormco Corporation$9K
Nobel Biocare USA$479
Align Technology, Inc.$256
American Orthodontics Corporation$175
Ortho Organizers, Inc.$127
plus $120 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$24,34812%
Speaking & faculty fees$128,98365%
Travel & lodging$36,06118%
Food & beverage$7,1904%
Education$2910%
Gifts$1180%
Charitable contribution$1430%

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
Envista Holdings Corporation	133	$186,789
Ormco Corporation	37	$9,188
Nobel Biocare USA	10	$479
Align Technology, Inc.	4	$256
American Orthodontics Corporation	8	$175
Ortho Organizers, Inc.	2	$127
A-dec, Inc.	1	$75
Kerr Corporation	2	$28
3M Company	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.

How this compares

$197,134 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 275 orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics providers in Colorado.

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Other orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics in Parker

Cassy WigginsParker$4K
William IversenFort Collins$964K
Laura MilnorFort Collins$94K
Nichole SchiroLittleton$89K
Renee MoranDenver$63K
Keri KenningBroomfield$44K
Keith KohrsAurora$20K
Brian BurtonGrand Junction$12K
Rajesh PatilErie$12K
Dafne EllisLakewood$11K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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