RxDoctor Payments Data

Jenny Apekian

Dentist · Sacramento, CANPI 1083801807

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $92,059 of the $129,573 with a category attached, or 71.0%. Dentsply Sirona Inc accounts for 68.9% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $35,962 and has fallen 62.1% since, to $13,641 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.

$129,573in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 263 payments — averaging $492.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Dentsply Sirona Inc$89K
  • Dentsply IH Inc.$15K
  • Sirona Dental, Inc.$7K
  • Patterson Companies, Inc.$5K
  • Straumann USA LLC$3K
  • Truabutment Inc.$3K
  • plus $8K from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$8401%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$92,05971%
  • Travel & lodging$19,79115%
  • Food & beverage$9,0637%
  • Education$3,5093%
  • Gifts$3,7543%
  • Entertainment$5580%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$129,573 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 9,550 dentist providers in California.

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Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Amoxicillin38$184
Ibuprofen24$119

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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