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

MEGAN A SHELTON

Dental Providers Dentist

NPI
1447698626
CMS profile
831366
Location
CARLSBAD, CA

General Payments · PY2018–2023

$7,145.53

  • Reported across 59 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2023

$1,644.73

11 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

PY2023 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Honoraria $1,500.00 2
Food and Beverage $144.73 9

By paying entity

PY2023 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Clinician's Choice Dental Products Inc. $1,500.00 2
Align Technology, Inc. $144.73 9

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $115.46 5
PY2019 $270.60 9
PY2020 $248.05 10
PY2021 $972.02 13
PY2022 $3,894.67 11
PY2023 $1,644.73 11

Payment records · PY2023 (11)

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

Program year 2023 20182019202020212022 Record-level detail is published for PY2023; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Align Technology, Inc. $26.15 01/17/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1058994433 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $23.36 03/28/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1058935345 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $20.60 03/29/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1059004811 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $20.33 06/05/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1058935369 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $8.60 06/05/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1058935377 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $2.99 06/05/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1058935385 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $20.98 06/27/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1058935353 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $20.42 07/25/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1058935361 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $1.30 07/25/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1058935393 CMS
Clinician's Choice Dental Products Inc. $1,000.00 03/07/2023 Honoraria Undisputed 01/23/2026 1012600225 CMS
Clinician's Choice Dental Products Inc. $500.00 10/25/2023 Honoraria Undisputed 01/23/2026 1013241879 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
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2023_P01232026_01102026.csv

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