Has Edward Lin received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $98,979 in general payments to Edward Lin across 197 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 Edward Lin 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 Edward Lin 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.

Edward Lin

Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics · Green Bay, WINPI 1962737338

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (48.3%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Dentsply Sirona Orthodontics Inc at 46.6% of the total. Among orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics clinicians in WI 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.

$98,979in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 197 payments — averaging $502.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Dentsply Sirona Orthodontics Inc$46K
American Orthodontics Corporation$32K
Dentsply Sirona Inc$14K
Patterson Companies, Inc.$3K
Orametrix$2K
World Class Technology Corporation$1K
plus $767 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$19,59020%
Speaking & faculty fees$47,85048%
Travel & lodging$12,54313%
Food & beverage$8,5179%
Education$1,1131%
Gifts$2270%
Entertainment$9,1399%

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 Orthodontics Inc	65	$46,153
American Orthodontics Corporation	51	$32,135
Dentsply Sirona Inc	24	$13,889
Patterson Companies, Inc.	3	$2,822
Orametrix	2	$1,937
World Class Technology Corporation	13	$1,276
Ormco Corporation	3	$205
GC America Inc.	3	$204
Envista Holdings Corporation	3	$191
Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	27	$118
Kulzer, LLC	1	$23
Ultradent Products Inc	1	$19
Forestadent USA, Inc.	1	$7

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

$98,979 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 155 orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics providers in Wisconsin.

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Other orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics in Green Bay

Melanie HammerbeckGreen Bay$5K
Kevin WilkeGreen Bay$4K
Mark HansonGreen Bay$3K
Jason MeinhardtSheboygan$14K
Martin GochnourMadison$9K
James KolstadWaukesha$8K
Nicholas ValeriPleasant Prairie$7K
Jeffery JustManitowoc$6K
Jane WrightKenosha$6K
James TomassettiAppleton$6K

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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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