Steven Bowman
Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics · Portage, MINPI 1487867610
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $913,675 of the $914,671 with a category attached, or 99.9%. Dentsply Sirona Orthodontics Inc accounts for 66.4% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $327,317 and has fallen 90.3% since, to $31,722 in 2025. Among orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics clinicians in MI 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 62 payments — averaging $14,753 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Dentsply Sirona Orthodontics Inc$607K
- Hu-friedy Mfg. Co., LLC$306K
- American Orthodontics Corporation$564
- Align Technology, Inc.$173
- GC America Inc.$18
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$913,675100%
- Food & beverage$8980%
- Gifts$680%
- Entertainment$300%
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 Orthodontics Inc | 6 | $607,439 |
| Hu-friedy Mfg. Co., LLC | 39 | $306,477 |
| American Orthodontics Corporation | 13 | $564 |
| Align Technology, Inc. | 3 | $173 |
| GC America Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Orthodontic Dentistry$607,439
- Hu-Friedy Mfg. Co., LLC$36,347
- EMPOWER-METAL$234
- EMPOWER-CERAMIC$234
- RADIANCE$234
- MASTER SERIES$234
- LP AND IFIT TUBES$234
- Invisalign$166
How this compares
$914,671 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 265 orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics providers in Michigan.
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Other orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics in Portage
- James ReynoldsNovi$228K
- Louis ChmuraMarshall$66K
- Timothy BandeenBattle Creek$65K
- Michael LanzettaTaylor$36K
- Nicole JaneLivonia$27K
- Jeffrey HeinzRockford$25K
- Zvi KennetWaterford$12K
- Kathryn SwanGrand Rapids$10K
- Fatima AhmedAnn Arbor$10K
- Brandon ShoukriDexter$6K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.