Has Steven Facer received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $846,722 in general payments to Steven Facer across 376 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Steven Facer did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Steven Facer come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Steven Facer

Endodontics · Post Falls, IDNPI 1942327697

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $699,990 of the $846,722 with a category attached, or 82.7%. Sonendo Inc accounts for 99.6% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $395,077 and has fallen 83.6% since, to $64,879 in 2025. Among endodontics clinicians in ID 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.

$846,722in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 376 payments — averaging $2251.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Sonendo Inc$843K
Sirona Dental, Inc.$2K
Dentsply IH Inc.$945
Tulsa Dental Products LLC$570
Dentsply Sirona Inc$409
Nusmile, Ltd.$143
plus $39 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$699,99083%
Speaking & faculty fees$90,41411%
Travel & lodging$36,2844%
Food & beverage$14,4722%
Education$4,7621%
Gifts$7990%

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
Sonendo Inc	357	$843,116
Sirona Dental, Inc.	2	$1,500
Dentsply IH Inc.	8	$945
Tulsa Dental Products LLC	2	$570
Dentsply Sirona Inc	3	$409
Nusmile, Ltd.	1	$143
Straumann USA LLC	2	$24
Vatech America, 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.

Gentle Wave Root Canal therapy console and handpiece$489,436
GentleWave G4 Console$187,112
GentleWave Console$161,185
CEREC$1,500
ORTHOPHOS$1,500
Posterior CleanFlow Procedure Instrument with Matrices$1,102
Endodontic Dentistry$1,089
WaveOne$362
NeoPUTTY$143
NEOSEALER$143
NEOMTA$143

How this compares

$846,722 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 28 endodontics providers in Idaho.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Amoxicillin	74	$317
CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil	21	$311
Methylprednisolone	30	$245
Azithromycin	30	$104
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	16	$86

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.