Has William Kottemann received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $303,511 in general payments to William Kottemann across 216 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 William Kottemann 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 William Kottemann 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.

William Kottemann

Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics · Maple Grove, MNNPI 1841575057

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $248,568 of the $303,511 with a category attached, or 81.9%. Align Technology, Inc. accounts for 99.9% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $118,934 and has fallen 88.6% since, to $13,503 in 2025. Among orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics clinicians in MN 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.

$303,511in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 216 payments — averaging $1405.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Align Technology, Inc.$303K
3M Company$162
GC America Inc.$125
American Orthodontics Corporation$87

$10,986in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $646.25 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Align Technology, Inc.$11K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$8,0403%
Speaking & faculty fees$248,56882%
Travel & lodging$33,70711%
Food & beverage$12,6534%
Education$2500%
Gifts$2940%

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.	209	$303,137
3M Company	2	$162
GC America Inc.	1	$125
American Orthodontics Corporation	4	$87

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$301,281
Itero$5,565
Clarity Aligner$136
Invisalign First - Comprehensive$135
Cerasmart$125
Bio-Edge$125
Invisalign First - Comprehensive Phase 2$117

How this compares

$303,511 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 166 orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics providers in Minnesota.

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Other orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics in Maple Grove

Paul HobdayMaple Grove$5K
Mark DaleMaple Grove$2K
Donna StenbergStillwater$1.7M
Regina BlevinsWoodbury$1.5M
Farnaz KarMinneapolis$358K
Jacquelyn SchieckNorthfield$167K
Thomas EverettBurnsville$154K
James MillerGolden Valley$20K
Estee WangMaplewood$14K
Grant CollinsRochester$13K

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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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