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 H FORD

Dental Providers Dentist Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics

NPI
1962488858
CMS profile
134101
Location
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$2,180.98

  • Reported across 62 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$465.39

13 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 $465.39 13

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
LIGHTFORCE ORTHODONTICS, INC. $175.95 1
Solventum Corporation $151.03 6
American Orthodontics Corporation $106.27 5
Align Technology, Inc. $32.14 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $658.23 15
PY2019 $452.69 13
PY2020 $139.10 6
PY2021 $216.45 8
PY2022 $177.49 4
PY2023 $71.63 3
PY2024 $465.39 13

Payment records · PY2024 (13)

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. $32.14 05/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153159024 CMS
American Orthodontics Corporation $19.36 02/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1113938721 CMS
American Orthodontics Corporation $14.50 05/21/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1113941659 CMS
American Orthodontics Corporation $28.78 07/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1113943659 CMS
American Orthodontics Corporation $26.33 09/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1113946187 CMS
American Orthodontics Corporation $17.30 11/21/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1113948390 CMS
LIGHTFORCE ORTHODONTICS, INC. $175.95 02/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1124777798 CMS
Solventum Corporation $30.94 08/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1144061982 CMS
Solventum Corporation $7.68 09/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1144061980 CMS
Solventum Corporation $26.31 10/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1144061978 CMS
Solventum Corporation $31.26 10/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1144061974 CMS
Solventum Corporation $14.51 10/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1144061976 CMS
Solventum Corporation $40.33 10/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1144061972 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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