Has Thomas Shipley received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $138,881 in general payments to Thomas Shipley across 252 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 Shipley 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 Shipley 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 Shipley

Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics · Phoenix, AZNPI 1205998549

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (48.9%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Ortho Organizers, Inc. accounts for 86.4% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $83,166 and has fallen 94.3% since, to $4,723 in 2025. Among orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics clinicians in AZ 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.

$138,881in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 252 payments — averaging $551.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Ortho Organizers, Inc.$120K
Align Technology, Inc.$9K
Dentsply Sirona Orthodontics Inc$8K
Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.$620
Dental Monitoring SAS$577
Dentsply Sirona Inc$519
plus $344 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$14,97511%
Speaking & faculty fees$67,95149%
Travel & lodging$42,58931%
Food & beverage$12,2019%
Education$3500%
Gifts$2250%
Charitable contribution$900%
Other$5000%

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
Ortho Organizers, Inc.	176	$120,058
Align Technology, Inc.	31	$9,015
Dentsply Sirona Orthodontics Inc	6	$7,748
Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.	11	$620
Dental Monitoring SAS	1	$577
Dentsply Sirona Inc	8	$519
American Orthodontics Corporation	13	$176
Straumann USA LLC	2	$75
GC America Inc.	2	$45
World Class Technology Corporation	1	$32
3M Company	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.

How this compares

$138,881 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 226 orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics providers in Arizona.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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