Heather Hopkins
Louisville, KYNPI 1790943678
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $836,650 of the $1,376,302 with a category attached, or 60.8%. Align Technology, Inc. accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $535,840 and has fallen 71.4% since, to $153,354 in 2025.
Across 210 payments — averaging $6553.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Align Technology, Inc.$1.4M
- Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.$54
- Ormco Corporation$14
- American Orthodontics Corporation$2
Across 3 payments — averaging $166,667 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.$500K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$500,00036%
- Speaking & faculty fees$836,65061%
- Travel & lodging$30,6582%
- Food & beverage$8,3631%
- Education$3670%
- Gifts$1730%
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Align Technology, Inc. | 206 | $1,376,232 |
| Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Ormco Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| American Orthodontics Corporation | 1 | $2 |
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.
- Invisalign$1,373,658
- Itero$3,702
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.