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

MICHAEL J KOUFOS

Dental Providers Dentist Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics

NPI
1336352707
CMS profile
686460
Location
MUNSTER, IN

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$7,043.70

  • Reported across 81 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$329.58

9 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 $219.58 7
Consulting Fee $110.00 2

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Align Technology, Inc. $168.96 5
GC America Inc. $91.79 2
Forestadent USA, Inc. $68.83 2

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $1,167.47 20
PY2019 $3,766.01 19
PY2020 $273.94 4
PY2021 $170.17 5
PY2022 $263.01 8
PY2023 $1,073.52 16
PY2024 $329.58 9

Payment records · PY2024 (9)

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. $75.00 03/06/2024 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153238921 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $20.42 03/21/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153174244 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $17.94 04/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153174242 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $35.00 07/17/2024 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153245791 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $20.60 12/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153174246 CMS
Forestadent USA, Inc. $20.09 04/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1106607166 CMS
Forestadent USA, Inc. $48.74 07/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1106607175 CMS
GC America Inc. $30.00 02/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146799270 CMS
GC America Inc. $61.79 02/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146799272 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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