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

RUSSELL EK CHANG

Dental Providers Dentist Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics

NPI
1598925463
CMS profile
254194
Location
LOS ALAMITOS, CA

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$5,806.70

  • Reported across 83 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$1,465.39

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 $1,448.04 14
Gift $17.35 1

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Align Technology, Inc. $1,153.05 9
LIGHTFORCE ORTHODONTICS, INC. $245.71 4
American Orthodontics Corporation $66.63 2

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $487.82 25
PY2019 $282.19 11
PY2020 $157.34 3
PY2021 $183.41 3
PY2022 $512.03 3
PY2023 $2,718.52 23
PY2024 $1,465.39 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. $55.45 03/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153217693 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $260.60 04/19/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153150002 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $19.92 04/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153149994 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $113.06 04/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153149996 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $180.58 04/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153150000 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $147.40 09/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153149998 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $147.40 09/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153217695 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $211.29 11/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153242897 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $17.35 11/03/2024 Gift Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153242899 CMS
American Orthodontics Corporation $29.99 06/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1113942189 CMS
American Orthodontics Corporation $36.64 06/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1113942867 CMS
LIGHTFORCE ORTHODONTICS, INC. $17.00 05/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124778568 CMS
LIGHTFORCE ORTHODONTICS, INC. $197.05 05/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124775542 CMS
LIGHTFORCE ORTHODONTICS, INC. $18.62 09/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124773788 CMS
LIGHTFORCE ORTHODONTICS, INC. $13.04 10/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124778412 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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