Has Joel Berger received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,157 in general payments to Joel Berger across 68 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 Joel Berger 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 Joel Berger 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.

Joel Berger

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery · San Diego, CANPI 1841218229

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,157in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 68 payments — averaging $46.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Salvin Dental Specialties, Inc.$901
Nobel Biocare USA$664
Straumann USA LLC$358
Zimmer Biomet$276
Geistlich Pharma, North America, Inc.$221
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$127
plus $610 from 15 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$3,13299%
Education$251%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Salvin Dental Specialties, Inc.	12	$901
Nobel Biocare USA	17	$664
Straumann USA LLC	8	$358
Zimmer Biomet	4	$276
Geistlich Pharma, North America, Inc.	4	$221
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$127
Misonix Inc	6	$107
Align Technology, Inc.	1	$94
Kls-martin L.p.	2	$53
Keystone Dental Inc.	1	$48
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$47
Dentsply IH Inc.	1	$47
Acera Surgical, Inc.	2	$38
Stryker	1	$36
Dentsply Sirona Inc	1	$36
Johnson & Johnson	1	$27
Implant Direct Sybron International LLC	1	$19
Axogen	1	$18
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$17
Southern Implants North America Inc	1	$12
Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc.	1	$12

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.

Trinity ELITE$254
Geistlich Bio Gide$168
3.1mmD HA Implants$117
NOBELACTIVE$114
Walter$101

How this compares

$3,157 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 941 oral & maxillofacial surgery providers in California.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Chlorhexidine Gluconate	408	$1,903
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	122	$1,141
Pentoxifylline	27	$625
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	38	$375
Doxycycline Hyclate	20	$352
Clindamycin Hcl	42	$342
Ibuprofen	93	$288
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	38	$207

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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