Has Farnaz Kar received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $358,414 in general payments to Farnaz Kar across 177 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 Farnaz Kar 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 Farnaz Kar 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.

Farnaz Kar

Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1073983896

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $321,350 of the $358,414 with a category attached, or 89.7%. Align Technology, Inc. accounts for 99.6% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $292,155, more than ten times the $56 reported in 2019. Among orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics clinicians in MN 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.

$358,414in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 177 payments — averaging $2024.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Align Technology, Inc.$357K
American Orthodontics Corporation$541
Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.$210
Ortho Organizers, Inc.$159
Dental Monitoring SAS$153
Kerr Corporation$47
plus $154 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$321,35090%
Travel & lodging$33,2219%
Food & beverage$3,7591%
Education$800%
Gifts$50%

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
Align Technology, Inc.	156	$357,150
American Orthodontics Corporation	6	$541
Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.	2	$210
Ortho Organizers, Inc.	5	$159
Dental Monitoring SAS	1	$153
Kerr Corporation	1	$47
Nobel Biocare USA	1	$47
USA Angelalign Technology CORP	1	$36
Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$33
Ultradent Products Inc	1	$14
3M Company	1	$13
Philips North America LLC	1	$11

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

$358,414 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 166 orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics providers in Minnesota.

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Other orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics in Minneapolis

Nathan VanlaeckenMinneapolis$3K
Matthew GoergenMinneapolis$2K
Kelly EspeMinneapolis$2K
Brian SpencerMinneapolis$2K
Tracy LiangMinneapolis$1K
Ariana WeissendMinneapolis$1K
Donna StenbergStillwater$1.7M
Regina BlevinsWoodbury$1.5M
William KottemannMaple Grove$304K
Jacquelyn SchieckNorthfield$167K

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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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