Device Dental Implant

Education

Payments companies reported to CMS as associated with Education. "Associated with" is CMS's wording: it links a payment to a product without saying the money was spent on it.

$9.2Massociated payments (2023-2025)

291clinicians with associated payments

5companies reporting

By year

2023 $1.9M

2024 $2.7M

2025 $4.5M

Payments reported as associated with Education, per program year, as reported to CMS.

Who makes it

Specialties most often involved

General Practice (Dentist) $3.4M

Dentist $2.1M

Prosthodontics $1.7M

Periodontics $762K

Dental Anesthesiology $383K

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery $366K

Where the associated payments went, by the receiving clinician's specialty.

Clinicians most associated with Education

These are the largest totals companies reported as associated with Education. They are typically speaking or consulting arrangements, which companies must report by law; appearing here is not evidence of anything improper.

Clinician	Location	Specialty	Associated payments (2023-2025)
Johnathan White	Las Vegas, NV	General Practice (Dentist)	$975,824.90
Mehrdad Mehranfar	Phoenix, AZ	General Practice (Dentist)	$910,943.19
Jedediah Huss	Thousand Oaks, CA	Dentist	$777,278.02
Xavier Saab	Houston, TX	Dentist	$505,545.73
Sreenivas Koka	Leland, MS	Prosthodontics	$422,395.92
Bryant Cornelius	Zelienople, PA	Dental Anesthesiology	$379,548.80
Navneet Arora	Rochester, NY	Periodontics	$301,135.72
C Mike Meek	Austin, TX	General Practice (Dentist)	$219,913.16
Patrick Lillis	Overland Park, KS	General Practice (Dentist)	$205,540.79
Todd Sawisch	Fort Lauderdale, FL	Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology	$194,964.68

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What this means, and what it doesn't

These payments are legal and common. Drug and device makers routinely pay for meals at educational events, consulting, speaking, travel, and research. Companies are required by federal law to report them; that's why this data exists.
A payment is not evidence of wrongdoing. Most clinicians who accept industry payments provide excellent care. Research payments in particular often reflect participation in clinical trials.
Context beats raw numbers. A few hundred dollars in sandwiches over several years is typical. What's worth understanding is scale, source, and purpose, which is what this page shows.
The data comes from companies, not doctors. Figures are "as reported to CMS" by the paying companies. Clinicians can dispute records through CMS's official process.

Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025, as reported to CMS by drug and device makers (published June 30, 2026). Drug and device detail covers 2023-2025.