Has Thomas Helfst, DDS received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $42,474 in general payments to Thomas Helfst, DDS across 85 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 Thomas Helfst, DDS 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 Thomas Helfst, DDS 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.

Thomas Helfst, DDS

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery · Stroudsburg, PANPI 1073568556

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by other: $41,390 of the $42,474 with a category attached, or 97.4%. Kls-martin L.p. accounts for 97.4% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $42,196, more than ten times the $66 reported in 2019. Among oral and maxillofacial surgery clinicians in PA 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.

$42,474in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 85 payments — averaging $499.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Kls-martin L.p.$41K
Stryker$431
Johnson & Johnson$340
Straumann USA LLC$100
Dentsply Sirona Inc$98
Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc.$66
plus $49 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4111%
Food & beverage$5731%
Education$1000%
Other$41,39097%

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
Kls-martin L.p.	68	$41,390
Stryker	2	$431
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	7	$340
Straumann USA LLC	1	$100
Dentsply Sirona Inc	1	$98
Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc.	4	$66
Nobel Biocare USA	1	$35
Zimvie Inc.	1	$14

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.

DISTRACTION, INTERNAL, STERILE, DIST, MANDIBLE, MICRO ZURICH 2, LYPKA, END DRV, $19,613
LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE, DRILL FREE,2.0 X 7 MM,TI-6AL-4V,QTY:001 EA$1,505
LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE, DRILL FREE,2.0 X 5 MM,TI-6AL-4V,QTY:001 EA$1,505
LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE, MMF, DRILL FREE,2.0 X 8 MM THD, TTL=12 MM,TI-6AL-$1,057
LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE, DRILL FREE,1.5 X 7 MM,TI-6AL-4V,QTY:001 EA$789
LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE,2.0 X 11 MM,TI-6AL-4V,QTY:001 EA$692
NA$662
LEVEL ONE,HANDLE, SCREWDRIVER, 1.0/1.5/2.0 MM, ROTATE,QTY:001 EA$645
LEVEL ONE, TWIST DRILL, J NOTCH, 25 MM STOP, 23 MM FLUTE, 1.5 X 115 MM, QTY: 001$614
LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE, DRILL FREE,1.5 X 5 MM,TI-6AL-4V,QTY:001 EA$607
LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE, EMERGENCY,2.3 X 7 MM,TI-6AL-4V,QTY:001 EA$538
LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE,2.0 X 13 MM,TI-6AL-4V,QTY:001 EA$532
LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE,2.0 X 15 MM,TI-6AL-4V,QTY:001 EA$532
LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE,2.0 X 9 MM,TI-6AL-4V,QTY:001 EA$532
LEVEL ONE CMF,SCREW, MAXDRIVE, MMF, DRILL FREE,2.0 X 12 MM THD, TTL=16 MM,TI-6AL$528
DISTRACTION, INTERNAL,FORCEPS, HOLDING, MICRO ZURICH II BODIES, 35 MM JAWS,14.5 $505
LEVEL ONE, BLADE, SCREWDRIVER, MAXDRIVE, 1.5 MM, NARROW DIA, 58 MM, QTY: 001 EA$447
LEVEL ONE,RACK, FOR UNIVERSAL STORAGE MODULE,24 X 11.5 X 3 CM,QTY:001 EA$431
LEVEL ONE,RACK, FOR 2.0 COMBO, INSERT AND SCREW,24 X 11.5 X 3 CM,QTY:001 EA$431
LEVEL ONE,TWIST DRILL, J NOTCH, 7 MM STOP,1.5 X 50 MM,QTY:001 EA$412

How this compares

$42,474 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 369 oral and maxillofacial surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$6,559

Medicare patients

Services billed

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	37	$154
Penicillin V Potassium	18	$88
Chlorhexidine Gluconate	20	$81
Amoxicillin	13	$31

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other oral and maxillofacial surgery in Stroudsburg

Ahmad ChaudhryStroudsburg$5K
Mark OchsPittsburgh$449K
Ankur JohriAllentown$98K
Richard BauerWexford$95K
Joseph LeonettiPaoli$88K
Larry CunninghamPitsburgh$83K
Neeraj PanchalPhiladelphia$73K
Eric GranquistPhiladelphia$65K
Michael HartmanMechanicsburg$50K
Bernard CostelloPittsburgh$44K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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