Doctor of Dentistry Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Vijay Bhagia

Dentist, Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics Houston, TX Doctor of Dentistry

NPI 1407966906 CMS profile 109533

1140 Clear Lake City Blvd # C, Houston, TX 77062

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General payments

$113,888

131 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$40

Paid to them · 2 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Vijay Bhagia of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $113,888 across 131 general payments and $40 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Dentist, Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

9 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $669 14
2024 General $494 12
2023 General $4,018 18
2022 General $21,160 29
2021 General $59,207 33
2020 General $26,492 12
2020 Research $20 1
2019 General $1,849 13
2019 Research $20 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Vijay Bhagia
  • Dentist, Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics median
  • Middle half of Dentist, Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Vijay Bhagia were reported at $669. Among 7,792 Dentist, Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics profiles paid that year, the median was $146 and the middle half received between $52 and $382.

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Year Vijay Bhagia Dentist, Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics median Middle half National median
2019 $1,849 $100 $36–$271 $163
2020 $26,492 $111 $63–$221 $114
2021 $59,207 $110 $46–$231 $132
2022 $21,160 $122 $44–$312 $149
2023 $4,018 $145 $51–$392 $160
2024 $494 $126 $50–$309 $164
2025 $669 $146 $52–$382 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Align Technology, Inc. $113,352 118 payments
  2. LightForce Orthodontics, Inc. $305 7 payments
  3. Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. $87 1 payment
  4. Boston Scientific Corporation $36 1 payment
  5. 3Shape A/S $30 1 payment
  6. Straumann USA LLC $27 1 payment
  7. 3M Company $27 1 payment
  8. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $25 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $53,220 17 payments
  2. Honoraria $25,340 9 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $14,707 74 payments
  4. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $11,310 4 payments
  5. Travel and Lodging $9,012 20 payments
  6. Gift $240 5 payments
  7. Education $50 1 payment
  8. Consulting Fee $10 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Invisalign Orthodontics $112,878 111 payments
  2. iTero $1,708 4 payments
  3. Invisalign First - Comprehensive $245 3 payments
  4. Invisalign Touch Up $181 2 payments
  5. LIGHTFORCE ORTHODONTIC SYSTEM $144 1 payment
  6. Invisalign System - Moderate $98 1 payment
  7. Optimizer Smart System $87 1 payment
  8. iTero Element 5D Plus Lite $81 2 payments
  9. Invisalign Orthodontics/Clear Aligners $50 1 payment
  10. LUX-Dx Insertable Cardiac Monitor $36 1 payment
  11. Other $108 4 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Align Technology, Inc. $40 2 payments

Records

133 reported

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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