Michael Kelly
Dentist · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1407840580
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $219,365 of the $280,064 with a category attached, or 78.3%. Convergent Dental Inc. accounts for 97.8% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $101,177 and has fallen 63.1% since, to $37,376 in 2025. Among dentist clinicians in AZ 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 36 payments — averaging $7779.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Convergent Dental Inc.$274K
- A-dec, Inc.$4K
- Ultradent Products Inc$2K
- Straumann USA LLC$200
- Ormco Corporation$163
- Carestream Dental, LLC$122
- plus $205 from 5 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $14,286 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Convergent Dental Inc.$100K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$219,36578%
- Speaking & faculty fees$54,40619%
- Food & beverage$3560%
- Education$3350%
- Gifts$5,6032%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Convergent Dental Inc. | 6 | $273,771 |
| A-dec, Inc. | 10 | $3,995 |
| Ultradent Products Inc | 6 | $1,607 |
| Straumann USA LLC | 2 | $200 |
| Ormco Corporation | 3 | $163 |
| Carestream Dental, LLC | 1 | $122 |
| Hu-friedy Mfg. Co., LLC | 1 | $60 |
| Nobel Biocare USA | 3 | $56 |
| 3M Company | 1 | $47 |
| Orapharma, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $27 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Solea$273,771
- Opalescence$1,494
- Dental and Orthodontic supplies$113
How this compares
$280,064 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,463 dentist providers in Arizona.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin | 14 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dentist in Scottsdale
- Joyce BassettScottsdale$616K
- Gary DewoodScottsdale$76K
- Gabriel WoodruffScottsdale$10K
- James OhScottsdale$9K
- Christopher BarrettScottsdale$6K
- Beth HamannPhoenix$1.9M
- Lee BradyGlendale$369K
- Howard FarranPhoenix$226K
- Sarah JohnsonGilbert$78K
- Jeffrey RobertsTucson$62K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.