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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
American Orthodontics Corporation
American Orthodontics Corporation reported $374,691.39 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 7,064 physicians and teaching hospitals across 7,064 transactions.
- $374.7K Above-median payer
- All-tracks total
- 7,064 Top quartile volume
- Transactions
- 7,064 Top quartile reach
- Recipients
- +$18.5K
- General Payments vs PY2023
American Orthodontics Corporation reported $374,691.39 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 7,064 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #846 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $374,691.39, averaging $53.04 per recipient.
How American Orthodontics Corporation's $374.7K all-tracks total breaks down
American Orthodontics Corporation's payment reach score
Each tracked dimension is percentile-scored against the national companies corpus, then averaged across only the dimensions that apply to this company, a neutral scale measure of reporting activity, not a rating of quality, safety, or ethics.
Overall reach score
F
47/100
Total payments
F
13/100
Transaction volume
D
61/100
Physician reach
D
64/100
Payment type diversity
D
50/100
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CMS Sunshine Act warrant
Manufacturer american-orthodontics-corporation American Orthodontics Corporation
$374.7K · #846/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024
- TOT $374.7K
- RANK #846
- SHARE 0.0%
- TXN 7,064
- RCP 7,064
- CAT 4
- GEN $374.7K
- ΔGEN +$18.5K
- TOP1 1.8%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Altus Partners. LLC ($374.7K)
American Orthodontics Corporation sits among 1,925 manufacturers disclosing under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Volume peers below are nearest by all-tracks total, not corporate affiliates. Open the company rankings →
Release-over-release change
General Payments changed from PY2023 to PY2024
American Orthodontics Corporation's CMS-reported General Payments increased by $18.5K (+5.2%) from PY2023 to PY2024.
How this year-over-year comparison is scoped
The comparison uses consecutive CMS program years only (current = prior + 1) from the manufacturer General Payments summary and excludes research and ownership or investment records. Non-consecutive year pairs are not shown as year-over-year change. This General Payments figure is not the all-tracks company total in the hero.
CMS source labels for this exact identifier: PY2022: AMERICAN ORTHODONTICS CORPORATIONPY2023: AMERICAN ORTHODONTICS CORPORATIONPY2024: American Orthodontics Corporation. Matching identifiers support a bounded record comparison; a label difference would be reported as unresolved rather than treated as a corporate event.
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General Payments: PY2023 vs PY2024
Annual CMS-reported totals for this company, not an all-category Open Payments total
- PY2023
- $356,193.03
- PY2024
- $374,691.39
What the Data Shows for American Orthodontics Corporation
The all-tracks total above combines three CMS reporting categories - General Payments, Research Payments, and Ownership/Investment interests - not one undifferentiated figure. For American Orthodontics Corporation, that total blends General Payments (day-to-day consulting, meals, travel and speaking fees, shown separately above) with Research and Ownership/Investment interest records, each governed by its own CMS reporting rules. CMS publishes each Program Year's data roughly 12 months after the reporting period ends, so this reflects the most recently released cycle; see our methodology for how the tracks are standardized and compared across companies.
"Food and Beverage" leads the 4-category general-payment breakdown below at $225.9K (60.3% of General Payments, 6,462 transactions) - see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately.
General Payment Breakdown by Type
American Orthodontics Corporation made 4 types of general payments. "Food and Beverage" is the largest category at $225.9K, 60.3% of General Payments.
American Orthodontics Corporation reports 4 general-payment categories - the top three are Food and Beverage (60.3%), Entertainment (26.6%), and Travel and Lodging (7.2%). The remaining 1 category make up 5.9% of this company's reported general-payment total. That multi-category mix is the kind of profile single-category reporters cannot show.
How American Orthodontics Corporation divides its payments
Ranked by total dollars reported per category
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food and Beverage | $225.9K | 6,462 | 60.3% |
| Entertainment | $99.7K | 91 | 26.6% |
| Travel and Lodging | $27.1K | 107 | 7.2% |
| Gift | $22.0K | 404 | 5.9% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $24,064.78 (6.4%) of $374,691.39 in this company's General Payments records across 3,052 recipients.
General Payments scope note
Program Year 2024 General Payments view only: excludes research and ownership/investment records, so it is not the all-category company total above.
Largest General-Payment relationships for American Orthodontics Corporation
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Martin Gochnour
$6,560.16 across 11 reported transactions
- 2
James Kolstad
$5,654.51 across 7 reported transactions
- 3
Ethan Just
$4,130.44 across 13 reported transactions
- 4
Kyle Aten
$3,946.54 across 7 reported transactions
- 5
Richard Friedman
$3,773.13 across 13 reported transactions
Compare this company's payment profile with similarly sized manufacturers in the company comparison tool, and consult the methodology for the CMS source scope.
Spend vs. Concentration
American Orthodontics Corporation ranks #846 of 1,925 by total payments (top 44% by spend) but spreads that money notably more broadly than its spend rank alone would suggest -- #1,784 of 1,838 by HHI (bottom 3% least concentrated), a wider distribution than most similarly sized payers.
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- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. : $4.4M total payments, HHI 42
- Ethicon US, LLC : $1.6M total payments, HHI 41
- Pylant Medical : $104.7K total payments, HHI 40
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. : $13.9M total payments, HHI 40
- American Orthodontics Corporation (this company) : $374.7K total payments, HHI 38
- Impel Pharmaceuticals LLC : $15.8K total payments, HHI 36
- Ultradent Products Inc : $1.8M total payments, HHI 36
- OWP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. : $7.8K total payments, HHI 35
- Dilon Technologies, Inc. : $148.5K total payments, HHI 35
- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. : $17.9M total payments, HHI 34
Similarly Concentrated Companies
Companies whose General Payments are spread across recipients about as (un)evenly as American Orthodontics Corporation's, measured by the same HHI concentration index above, not by payment size.
What HHI 2,500 means here
2,500 is the DOJ/FTC merger-guidelines threshold for "highly concentrated" markets; used here only as a familiar concentration reference, not a legal finding about American Orthodontics Corporation.
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Put this to use
American Orthodontics Corporation ranks #846 of 1,925 by all-tracks total payments, led by "Food and Beverage".
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Data sourced from CMS Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act). See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPharmaWatch
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