Joseph Bernier-Rodriguez
Dentist · Ft Gordon, GANPI 1740293075
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $204,179 of the $232,927 with a category attached, or 87.7%. Dentsply Sirona Inc accounts for 91.4% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $86,884 and has fallen 87.9% since, to $10,490 in 2025. Among dentist clinicians in GA 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 233 payments — averaging $999.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Dentsply Sirona Inc$213K
- Maillefer Instruments Holding Sarl$14K
- Tulsa Dental Products LLC$4K
- Dentsply IH Inc.$1K
- Straumann USA LLC$30
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$204,17988%
- Travel & lodging$23,79110%
- Food & beverage$4,8062%
- Education$230%
- Gifts$1290%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dentsply Sirona Inc | 210 | $212,793 |
| Maillefer Instruments Holding Sarl | 5 | $14,404 |
| Tulsa Dental Products LLC | 7 | $4,465 |
| Dentsply IH Inc. | 10 | $1,234 |
| Straumann USA LLC | 1 | $30 |
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.
- Q-MIX$15,530
- WaveOne Gold Conform Fit$6,197
- Endodontic Dentistry$5,208
- Endo Activator$1,598
- DENTSPLY$882
- WaveOne$211
- X-SMART$164
- ProMark$129
How this compares
$232,927 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,532 dentist providers in Georgia.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Dexamethasone | 23 | $111 |
| Amoxicillin | 27 | $98 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dentist in Ft Gordon
- Ronald GoldsteinAtlanta$1.9M
- Maurice SalamaAtlanta$469K
- Robert WalinchusSavannah$146K
- David ReznikAtlanta$106K
- David GarberAtlanta$104K
- Hugh FlaxAtlanta$102K
- Christian JohnsonSmyrna$49K
- Todd SchoenbaumAugusta$42K
- Bernee DunsonAtlanta$31K
- Edmond FranklinCollege Park$22K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.