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

BRADFORD LEE KESS

Dental Providers Dentist Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics

NPI
1700961299
CMS profile
1180296
Location
TEMPE, AZ

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$10,354.00

  • Reported across 43 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$576.97

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 $426.97 13
Consulting Fee $150.00 2

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Align Technology, Inc. $483.40 10
American Orthodontics Corporation $73.82 4
LIGHTFORCE ORTHODONTICS, INC. $19.75 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $22.44 1
PY2019 $147.78 6
PY2020 $9,255.21 5
PY2021 $91.53 2
PY2022 $179.96 9
PY2023 $80.11 5
PY2024 $576.97 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. $22.12 02/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153216829 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $75.00 02/20/2024 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153235456 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $75.00 03/06/2024 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153235458 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $13.92 04/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153216827 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $148.71 05/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153147172 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $13.69 08/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153147168 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $115.80 11/19/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153147170 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $2.69 11/21/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153147162 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $5.47 11/21/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153147164 CMS
Align Technology, Inc. $11.00 11/21/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153147166 CMS
American Orthodontics Corporation $15.00 02/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1113938725 CMS
American Orthodontics Corporation $41.36 04/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1113940297 CMS
American Orthodontics Corporation $10.00 06/19/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1113942611 CMS
American Orthodontics Corporation $7.46 11/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1113948466 CMS
LIGHTFORCE ORTHODONTICS, INC. $19.75 03/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124778854 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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