RxDoctor Payments Data

Mazyar Moshiri

Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics · Saint Louis, MONPI 1093810202

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $2,648,888 of the $4,058,363 with a category attached, or 65.3%. Align Technology, Inc. accounts for 99.0% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics clinicians in MO 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.

$4,058,363in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 424 payments — averaging $9571.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Align Technology, Inc.$4M
  • Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.$42K
  • Ormco Corporation$23
$600,000in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $200,000 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

  • Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.$600K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,317,51632%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$2,648,88865%
  • Travel & lodging$52,8811%
  • Food & beverage$20,5581%
  • Education$10,4140%
  • Gifts$1230%
  • Other$7,9830%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Align Technology, Inc.379$4,016,826
Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.44$41,515
Ormco Corporation1$23

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

$4,058,363 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 154 orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics providers in Missouri.

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