Ron Kaminer
Dentist · Hewlett, NYNPI 1366547044
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $377,244 of the $454,604 with a category attached, or 83.0%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Ultradent Products Inc at 55.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $127,639 and has fallen 91.2% since, to $11,245 in 2025. Among dentist clinicians in NY 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 228 payments — averaging $1993.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Ultradent Products Inc$254K
- VOCO America Inc.$74K
- Shofu Dental Corp$28K
- GC America Inc.$20K
- Clinician's Choice Dental Products Inc.$20K
- NSK America Corporation$18K
- plus $41K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,7531%
- Speaking & faculty fees$377,24483%
- Travel & lodging$26,0956%
- Food & beverage$40,5279%
- Education$2,0360%
- Gifts$2,2550%
- Entertainment$6920%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ultradent Products Inc | 106 | $253,721 |
| VOCO America Inc. | 46 | $74,153 |
| Shofu Dental Corp | 7 | $27,533 |
| GC America Inc. | 16 | $20,271 |
| Clinician's Choice Dental Products Inc. | 12 | $20,181 |
| NSK America Corporation | 12 | $17,992 |
| Bisco, Inc. | 5 | $10,530 |
| Prexion, Inc. | 7 | $8,618 |
| Patterson Companies, Inc. | 1 | $5,000 |
| Pulpdent Corporation | 1 | $4,000 |
| Septodont Inc. | 3 | $3,753 |
| Premier Dental Products Company | 2 | $3,500 |
| Planmeca USA, Inc. | 2 | $1,698 |
| Air Techniques, Inc. | 1 | $1,500 |
| Doxa Dental, Inc. | 3 | $1,500 |
| Henry Schein, Inc. | 2 | $602 |
| Straumann USA LLC | 2 | $51 |
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.
- Opalescence$197,905
- Dental Supplies$48,419
- Admira Fusion$27,963
- Grandio blocs$27,500
- SolFlex$25,000
- Futurabond U$18,400
- VOCO Retraction Paste$18,063
- Z95L$13,300
- TI-MAX Z CONTRA/HP$10,300
- M65$10,300
- PTL-CL-LED$10,300
- Z800L$10,300
- G-aenial$9,434
- Cerasmart$7,000
- Admira Fusion x-tra$6,500
- Dental and Orthodontic supplies$6,500
- VisCalor$5,703
- MI Paste$5,500
- Grandio SO$5,500
- VisCalor bulk$5,203
How this compares
$454,604 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,954 dentist providers in New York.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin | 105 | $407 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 68 | $331 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 35 | $213 |
| Azithromycin | 22 | $119 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 11 | $60 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dentist in Hewlett
- Seth KleinrockHewlett$19K
- David GallerWoodmere$4.3M
- Jehyun ChongFlushing$1.6M
- Jeffrey GallerBrooklyn$532K
- Andrew ReingoldNew York$486K
- Steven GlassmanNew York$473K
- Jason KimFlushing$427K
- Robert MikhliBrooklyn$290K
- Peter AusterPomona$234K
- Paul SiuNew York$178K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.