Has Melissa Shotell received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $260,418 in general payments to Melissa Shotell across 158 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 Melissa Shotell 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 Melissa Shotell 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.

Melissa Shotell

Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics · Sonora, CANPI 1790944098

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (56.6%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Ortho Organizers, Inc. accounts for 71.4% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $176,679 and has fallen 90.0% since, to $17,751 in 2025. 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.

$260,418in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 158 payments — averaging $1648.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Ortho Organizers, Inc.$186K
Straumann USA LLC$24K
Henry Schein, Inc.$21K
Carestream Dental, LLC$17K
Whip Mix Corporation$5K
Sprintray Inc$5K
plus $2K from 7 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$147,40257%
Speaking & faculty fees$55,15121%
Travel & lodging$32,31412%
Food & beverage$6,7293%
Gifts$1,4111%
Entertainment$1610%
Other$17,2507%

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
Ortho Organizers, Inc.	86	$185,938
Straumann USA LLC	19	$23,940
Henry Schein, Inc.	25	$20,754
Carestream Dental, LLC	1	$17,250
Whip Mix Corporation	1	$5,392
Sprintray Inc	4	$4,930
Zest Holdings, LLC	14	$1,103
A-dec, Inc.	2	$670
Envista Holdings Corporation	2	$199
American Orthodontics Corporation	1	$161
Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.	1	$47
Kettenbach LP	1	$19
USA Angelalign Technology CORP	1	$16

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

$260,418 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 Sonora

Norman JacobsonSalinas$4.3M
Michael FlormanSanta Monica$3.9M
David BoschkenSan Jose$1.9M
Eric KuoSan Francisco$1.9M
Ronald RonconeVista$1.5M
Robert BoydSan Francisco$1.5M
Andrew TrosienTracy$1.2M
Marta BairdPleasanton$955K
Richard McLaughlinSan Diego$950K
Yan KalikaSan Francisco$889K

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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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