Dennis Tarnow
Periodontics · New York, NYNPI 1912128489
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $593,280 of the $671,847 with a category attached, or 88.3%. Keystone Dental Inc. accounts for 83.3% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $148,940 and has fallen 97.8% since, to $3,241 in 2025. Among periodontics clinicians in NY 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 145 payments — averaging $4633.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Keystone Dental Inc.$559K
- Zimmer Biomet$50K
- Zimvie Inc.$22K
- Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc.$16K
- Dentsply Sirona Inc$12K
- Southern Implants North America Inc$8K
- plus $5K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$3,0890%
- Consulting fees$593,28088%
- Speaking & faculty fees$62,0759%
- Travel & lodging$7,0021%
- Food & beverage$1,7180%
- Education$1,2050%
- Gifts$9200%
- Entertainment$5570%
- Charitable contribution$2,0000%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Keystone Dental Inc. | 42 | $559,499 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 44 | $49,589 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 19 | $21,629 |
| Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc. | 11 | $16,095 |
| Dentsply Sirona Inc | 3 | $12,120 |
| Southern Implants North America Inc | 7 | $8,358 |
| Peter Brasseler Holdings, LLC | 2 | $3,000 |
| A-dec, Inc. | 1 | $600 |
| Neoss, Inc. | 3 | $514 |
| Hu-friedy Mfg. Co., LLC | 9 | $346 |
| Straumann USA LLC | 1 | $38 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $32 |
| ACE Surgical Supply Co., Inc. | 1 | $27 |
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.
- BIOHORIZONS$79,229
- Zimmer Biomet Instruments and Implants$15,750
- All T3 Implants$14,570
- 3i T3$13,561
- Inverta$7,948
- T3$6,000
- Trabecular Metal (TM) Dental$5,590
- Puros$3,999
- ROSA$3,440
- GenTek Components$3,375
- Provisional$3,000
- Trabecular Metal (TM)$2,250
- Rotary Instrumentation$2,000
- OSSEOTITE$1,500
- Certain Stock Abutments & Compon$1,500
- Mobi-C$860
- Neoss ProActive Implant Systems$514
- Diem2$366
How this compares
$671,847 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 457 periodontics providers in New York.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin | 61 | $215 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 13 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other periodontics in New York
- Hector SarmientoNew York$130K
- Scott FroumNew York$100K
- Edgard El ChaarNew York$93K
- Jaffer ShariffNew York$52K
- Alan PollackNew York$25K
- John GrbicNew York$17K
- Alexander VolchonokNew York$8K
- Ali AskariNew York$8K
- Michael ReshadNew York$7K
- Mahtab AzimiNew York$4K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.