Has Marta Baird received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $954,615 in general payments to Marta Baird across 493 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 Marta Baird 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 Marta Baird 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.

Marta Baird

Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics · Pleasanton, CANPI 1194094144

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $848,270 of the $954,615 with a category attached, or 88.9%. Align Technology, Inc. accounts for 99.4% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $403,334, more than ten times the $7,082 reported in 2019. Among orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics 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.

$954,615in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 493 payments — averaging $1936.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Align Technology, Inc.$948K
American Orthodontics Corporation$6K
Ultradent Products Inc$226
VOCO America Inc.$67
Envista Holdings Corporation$46

$32,883in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 10 payments — averaging $3288.25 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.

Align Technology, Inc.$33K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$3,4400%
Speaking & faculty fees$848,27089%
Travel & lodging$78,0798%
Food & beverage$18,2682%
Education$5710%
Gifts$7130%
Entertainment$5,2741%

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.	477	$948,445
American Orthodontics Corporation	12	$5,832
Ultradent Products Inc	2	$226
VOCO America Inc.	1	$67
Envista Holdings Corporation	1	$46

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

$954,615 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,506 orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics providers in California.

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Other orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics in Pleasanton

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David BoschkenSan Jose$1.9M
Eric KuoSan Francisco$1.9M
Ronald RonconeVista$1.5M
Robert BoydSan Francisco$1.5M
Andrew TrosienTracy$1.2M
Richard McLaughlinSan Diego$950K
Yan KalikaSan Francisco$889K
Samuel LeeSan Clemente$779K

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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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