Has Cory Costanzo received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $163,168 in general payments to Cory Costanzo across 181 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 Cory Costanzo 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 Cory Costanzo 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.

Cory Costanzo

Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics · Fresno, CANPI 1780804369

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $122,987 of the $163,168 with a category attached, or 75.4%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Dentsply Sirona Inc at 49.6% of the total. Among orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics 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.

$163,168in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 181 payments — averaging $901.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Dentsply Sirona Inc$81K
Dentsply Sirona Orthodontics Inc$74K
Orametrix$6K
American Orthodontics Corporation$1K
Straumann USA LLC$334
Ormco Corporation$276
plus $787 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$17,35511%
Speaking & faculty fees$122,98775%
Travel & lodging$18,64211%
Food & beverage$3,5402%
Gifts$2850%
Entertainment$2690%
Charitable contribution$900%

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
Dentsply Sirona Inc	71	$80,963
Dentsply Sirona Orthodontics Inc	59	$74,153
Orametrix	11	$5,500
American Orthodontics Corporation	14	$1,156
Straumann USA LLC	4	$334
Ormco Corporation	7	$276
Nobel Biocare USA	3	$195
Align Technology, Inc.	2	$185
World Class Technology Corporation	3	$148
Ultradent Products Inc	1	$113
Envista Holdings Corporation	2	$64
Zimmer Biomet	1	$32
Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.	1	$19
USA Angelalign Technology CORP	1	$17
3M Company	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.

How this compares

$163,168 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,506 orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics providers in California.

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Other orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics in Fresno

Mark LoweFresno$156K
Norman JacobsonSalinas$4.3M
Michael FlormanSanta Monica$3.9M
David BoschkenSan Jose$1.9M
Eric KuoSan Francisco$1.9M
Ronald RonconeVista$1.5M
Robert BoydSan Francisco$1.5M
Andrew TrosienTracy$1.2M
Marta BairdPleasanton$955K
Richard McLaughlinSan Diego$950K

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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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