Sara Valente, MD
Urology · Rockport, MENPI 1912310723
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (49.9%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Teleflex LLC at 29.0% of the total.
Across 43 payments — averaging $63.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Teleflex LLC$793
- Cook Medical LLC$383
- AbbVie$287
- Innovation Technologies Inc$221
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$220
- Axonics, Inc.$156
- plus $670 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,08140%
- Food & beverage$1,36150%
- Education$28811%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $793 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $383 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 9 | $287 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $221 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $220 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 3 | $156 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $151 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 2 | $92 |
| Neotract Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $80 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 4 | $68 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Rochester Medical Corporation | 2 | $31 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $22 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- UroLift System$778
- Cook Medical Urology$288
- Irrisept$221
- Axonics$105
How this compares
$2,730 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 59 urology providers in Maine.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 135 | $80,951 |
| GemtesaVibegron | 33 | $15,407 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 384 | $4,673 |
| Mirabegron ErMirabegron | 11 | $3,916 |
| Finasteride | 270 | $3,208 |
| Tolterodine Tartrate ErTolterodine Tartrate | 18 | $2,888 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 171 | $2,707 |
| Estradiol | 33 | $1,894 |
| Solifenacin Succinate | 15 | $1,812 |
| Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl | 91 | $1,767 |
| Trospium Chloride ErTrospium Chloride | 12 | $1,736 |
| Cephalexin | 69 | $362 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride | 28 | $310 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 11 | $190 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 16 | $135 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $220 | $80,951135 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 59 urology providers in Maine.
Other urology in Rockport
- Robert FisherRockport$9K
- Lindsey KerrRockport$2K
- Elizabeth AlbertsonRockport$877
- Marshall HallRockport$738
- Lars EllisonRockport$395
- Griffith BatstoneFarmington$123K
- David SobelPortland$58K
- Marc HodroffPortland$17K
- Evan DunnLewiston$9K
- Christopher HenryLewiston$6K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.