Norma Ramirez
General Practice · Chula Vista, CANPI 1760670418
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 87 payments — averaging $124.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Dentsply Sirona Inc$3K
- Lumenis BE Inc$2K
- Sirona Dental, Inc.$2K
- Ultradent Products Inc$886
- Patterson Companies, Inc.$864
- A-dec, Inc.$854
- plus $2K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$160%
- Food & beverage$5,64952%
- Education$2,79926%
- Gifts$1,80917%
- Entertainment$5005%
- Charitable contribution$901%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 27 | $2,924 |
| Lumenis BE Inc | 1 | $1,987 |
| Sirona Dental, Inc. | 2 | $1,500 |
| Ultradent Products Inc | 6 | $886 |
| Patterson Companies, Inc. | 2 | $864 |
| A-dec, Inc. | 6 | $854 |
| Straumann USA LLC | 7 | $521 |
| Henry Schein, Inc. | 7 | $445 |
| Align Technology, Inc. | 9 | $308 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $120 |
| GC America Inc. | 2 | $79 |
| Dental Imaging Technologies Corp. | 1 | $70 |
| Envista Holdings Corporation | 2 | $66 |
| Orapharma, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $59 |
| Premier Dental Products Company | 2 | $52 |
| 3M Company | 2 | $43 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Implant Direct Sybron International LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Ortho Organizers, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Benco Dental Supply Co. | 1 | $16 |
| Kulzer, LLC | 1 | $11 |
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.
- M22$1,987
- ORTHOPHOS$1,500
- CEREC$1,500
- CAD/CAM Software$750
- Opalescence$746
- Dental Equipment$603
- CEREC Tessera$334
- Convergent Dental, Inc.-Laser,Solea,Model 3,Basic$300
- Convergent Dental, Inc.-Laser,Solea,Model 2,Prem+$150
- Convergent Dental, Inc.-Laser,Solea,Model 3,Prem+$150
- Convergent Dental, Inc.-Laser,Solea,Model 2,Rfrb$150
- Solea$114
- Dental and Orthodontic supplies$113
How this compares
$10,863 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 12,963 general practice providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 34 | $132 |
| Amoxicillin | 17 | $45 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other general practice in Chula Vista
- Sam HalaboChula Vista$359K
- Uri GuefenChula Vista$79K
- Hessam AazamiCanoga Park$88.4M
- Frederic MollRedwood City$5.7M
- Nathan LiLancaster$5.2M
- Milton McCollSan Jose$4.9M
- Bruce TorkanLos Angeles$3.8M
- Daniel JohnsonPalm Desert$1.5M
- Bradley ChingUpland$1.4M
- Jared AdamsSan Francisco$862K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.