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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.
Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc. reported $8,282,293.42 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 2,676 physicians and teaching hospitals across 2,709 transactions.
- $8.3M Top quartile payer
- All-tracks total
- 2,709 Top quartile volume
- Transactions
- 2,676 Top quartile reach
- Recipients
- +$63.4K
- General Payments vs PY2023
Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc. reported $8,282,293.42 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 2,676 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #205 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.1% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $511,293.42, averaging $3.1K per recipient.
How Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.'s $8.3M all-tracks total breaks down
Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.'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
49/100
Total payments
B
87/100
Transaction volume
F
30/100
Physician reach
F
30/100
Payment type diversity
D
50/100
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CMS Sunshine Act warrant
Manufacturer lightforce-orthodontics-inc Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.
$8.3M · #205/1,925 · 0.1% industry · PY2024
- TOT $8.3M
- RANK #205
- SHARE 0.1%
- TXN 2,709
- RCP 2,676
- CAT 4
- GEN $511.3K
- ΔGEN +$63.4K
- TOP1 14.0%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Beckman Coulter, Inc. ($8.3M)
Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc. 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
Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.'s CMS-reported General Payments increased by $63.4K (+14.2%) 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: LIGHTFORCE ORTHODONTICS, INC.PY2023: LIGHTFORCE ORTHODONTICS, INC.PY2024: LIGHTFORCE ORTHODONTICS, INC.. 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
- $447,864.91
- PY2024
- $511,293.42
What the Data Shows for Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.
The all-tracks total above combines three CMS reporting categories - General Payments, Research Payments, and Ownership/Investment interests - not one undifferentiated figure. For Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc., 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.
Of the 4 general-payment categories charted below, "Consulting Fee" is the largest at $179.9K across 80 transactions, 35.2% of this company's General Payments (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately).
General Payment Breakdown by Type
"Consulting Fee" leads Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.'s 4-category general-payment breakdown at $179.9K, 35.2% of the reported total.
Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc. reports 4 general-payment categories - the top three are Consulting Fee (35.2%), Education (33.6%), and Food and Beverage (23.9%). The remaining 1 category make up 7.4% of this company's reported general-payment total. That multi-category mix is the kind of profile single-category reporters cannot show.
How Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc. divides its payments
General-payment categories, ordered by reported total
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consulting Fee | $179.9K | 80 | 35.2% |
| Education | $171.7K | 77 | 33.6% |
| Food and Beverage | $122.1K | 2,472 | 23.9% |
| Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting | $37.6K | 47 | 7.4% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $234,947.66 (46.0%) of $511,293.42 in this company's General Payments records across 1,245 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 Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Jacquelyn Rae Schieck
$71,607.34 across 40 reported transactions
- 2
Alexander Waldman
$57,743.76 across 34 reported transactions
- 3
Mohammad R Razavi
$40,585.57 across 12 reported transactions
- 4
Bryan Allen Lockhart
$39,120.58 across 17 reported transactions
- 5
Todd Welsh
$25,890.41 across 40 reported transactions
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Spend vs. Concentration
Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc. ranks #205 of 1,925 by total payments (top 11% by spend) but spreads that money notably more broadly than its spend rank alone would suggest -- #1,259 of 1,838 by HHI (bottom 32% least concentrated), a wider distribution than most similarly sized payers.
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- Upsher-Smith Laboratories LLC : $19.0K total payments, HHI 555
- Monaghan Medical Corporation : $16.0K total payments, HHI 555
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- Eitan Medical North America, Inc. : $1.6K total payments, HHI 552
- Henry Schein Puerto Rico, Inc. : $2.6K total payments, HHI 552
- iotaMotion, Inc. : $37.4K total payments, HHI 552
- Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc. (this company) : $511.3K total payments, HHI 551
- DENTSPLY IH Inc. : $389.9K total payments, HHI 550
- Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. : $494.0K total payments, HHI 550
- Novocure Inc. : $1.2M total payments, HHI 549
- Blue Surgical Llc : $12.0K total payments, HHI 549
- IBA Proton Therapy, Inc. : $24.6K total payments, HHI 548
Similarly Concentrated Companies
Companies whose General Payments are spread across recipients about as (un)evenly as Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc.'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 Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc..
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Put this to use
Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc. ranks #205 of 1,925 by all-tracks total payments, led by "Consulting Fee".
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Reported payments reflect what companies disclosed to CMS; a payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.
Data sourced from CMS Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act). See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPharmaWatch
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