Samuel Lee
Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics · San Clemente, CANPI 1447445192
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $669,774 of the $778,937 with a category attached, or 86.0%. Align Technology, Inc. accounts for 99.8% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $428,919, more than ten times the $620 reported in 2019. 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.
Across 453 payments — averaging $1719.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Align Technology, Inc.$777K
- American Orthodontics Corporation$2K
- Ortho Organizers, Inc.$13
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,2500%
- Speaking & faculty fees$669,77486%
- Travel & lodging$91,86912%
- Food & beverage$14,0882%
- Education$3000%
- Gifts$4030%
- Entertainment$1,2530%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Align Technology, Inc. | 445 | $777,105 |
| American Orthodontics Corporation | 7 | $1,819 |
| Ortho Organizers, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Invisalign$740,618
- Itero$33,444
- EMPOWER-METAL$1,617
- EMPOWER-CERAMIC$1,617
- RADIANCE$1,617
- MASTER SERIES$1,617
- LP AND IFIT TUBES$1,617
- Invisalign Lens$500
- Invisalign Virtual Care AI$500
How this compares
$778,937 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 San Clemente
- 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
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.