Foroud Hakim
Dentist · San Ramon, CANPI 1932111036
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $173,372 of the $238,766 with a category attached, or 72.6%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by VOCO America Inc. at 47.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $48,738 and has fallen 73.4% since, to $12,969 in 2025. Among dentist 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.
Across 146 payments — averaging $1635.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- VOCO America Inc.$114K
- Ultradent Products Inc$90K
- Doxa Dental, Inc.$11K
- Clinician's Choice Dental Products Inc.$6K
- NSK America Corporation$4K
- Pulpdent Corporation$3K
- plus $12K from 12 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $156.25 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Kerr Corporation$156
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$26,87511%
- Speaking & faculty fees$173,37273%
- Travel & lodging$11,0445%
- Food & beverage$24,34910%
- Education$610%
- Gifts$2,8411%
- Entertainment$430%
- Charitable contribution$1800%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| VOCO America Inc. | 55 | $114,366 |
| Ultradent Products Inc | 37 | $89,794 |
| Doxa Dental, Inc. | 11 | $10,500 |
| Clinician's Choice Dental Products Inc. | 3 | $5,683 |
| NSK America Corporation | 7 | $3,578 |
| Pulpdent Corporation | 1 | $3,000 |
| Kerr Corporation | 4 | $2,354 |
| Midway Dental Supply, LLC | 1 | $2,000 |
| GC America Inc. | 1 | $2,000 |
| Garrison Dental Solutions | 2 | $1,219 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $1,116 |
| Zest Holdings, LLC | 1 | $1,000 |
| Premier Dental Products Company | 1 | $1,000 |
| Align Technology, Inc. | 14 | $586 |
| Ivoclar Vivadent, Inc. | 2 | $298 |
| Dentsply Sirona Inc | 3 | $196 |
| Septodont Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Opalescence$89,104
- Futurabond U$53,385
- V-Posil$28,924
- Rebilda Post$28,500
- VOCO Retraction Paste$25,872
- Admira Fusion x-tra$16,230
- VisCalor bulk$15,703
- VisCalor$11,703
- Grandio SO Heavy Flow$10,105
- Grandio SO$7,612
- VOCO Profluorid Varnish$6,500
- Ceramir Crown & Bridge Cement$5,375
- CERAMIR CROWN & BRIDGE QUIKCAP$5,125
- CERAMIR BIOCERAMIC IMPLANT CEMENT QUIKCAP$5,125
- Calcimol LC$5,000
- x-tra base$4,500
- Structur Premium$3,500
- Meron Plus QM$3,000
- CERAMIR RESTORE QUIKCAP$3,000
- CERAMIR PROTECT LC SYRINGE$2,500
How this compares
$238,766 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 9,550 dentist providers in California.
Other dentist in San Ramon
- Todd EngelLadera Ranch$4.2M
- Jedediah HussThousand Oaks$1.3M
- John DiponzianoSan Leandro$904K
- Jeffrey RohdeSanta Barbara$593K
- Troy SchueddingWalnut Creek$468K
- Todd SnyderLaguna Niguel$427K
- Saima HasnainSacramento$415K
- August de OliveiraEncino$332K
- Brian NovyNewhall$297K
- Christopher HagenFountain Valley$289K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.