Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

GEORGE D LIM

Dental Providers Dentist General Practice

NPI
1053526129
CMS profile
1133698
Location
LOS ANGELES, CA

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$1,487.70

  • Reported across 47 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$448.08

15 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $448.08 15

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Align Technology, Inc. $253.86 9
Straumann USA LLC $180.52 4
ULTRADENT PRODUCTS INC $13.70 2

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $28.40 2
PY2019 $128.70 5
PY2020 $196.21 2
PY2021 $144.70 6
PY2022 $393.55 8
PY2023 $148.06 9
PY2024 $448.08 15

Payment records · PY2024 (15)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Align Technology, Inc. $35.24 04/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153220161 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $12.27 05/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153158014 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $45.00 05/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153158022 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $35.99 05/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153158020 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $70.08 05/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153158024 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $9.80 07/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153158012 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $14.45 07/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153220159 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $15.06 09/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153158016 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $15.97 12/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153158018 CMS
Straumann USA LLC $6.99 09/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1106627063 CMS
Straumann USA LLC $147.48 10/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1112016513 CMS
Straumann USA LLC $22.60 11/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1112022412 CMS
Straumann USA LLC $3.45 11/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1112022414 CMS
Ultradent Products Inc $6.85 07/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145559860 CMS
Ultradent Products Inc $6.85 07/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145559874 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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