Sarah Belden, DO
Dermatology · Middletown, RINPI 1356753974
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 96.9% of the total across 142 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 142 payments — averaging $21.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$533
- Sanofi$495
- LEO Pharma Inc.$375
- Novartis$293
- Johnson & Johnson$279
- Lilly USA, LLC$225
- plus $838 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,94397%
- Education$953%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 36 | $533 |
| Sanofi | 14 | $495 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 15 | $375 |
| Novartis | 15 | $293 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $279 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 11 | $225 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 6 | $172 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 8 | $140 |
| Amgen | 7 | $133 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $117 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $112 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $19 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $18 |
| LNHC, Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Organon | 1 | $9 |
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.
- DUPIXENT$233
How this compares
$3,038 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 61 dermatology providers in Rhode Island.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ketoconazole | 435 | $8,440 |
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 162 | $6,572 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 252 | $4,132 |
| Fluocinonide | 107 | $3,238 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 107 | $2,895 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 70 | $2,727 |
| Metronidazole | 58 | $2,485 |
| Azelaic Acid | 14 | $1,936 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 45 | $1,182 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 44 | $1,138 |
| Fluorouracil | 17 | $1,006 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 60 | $823 |
| Permethrin | 19 | $808 |
| Nystatin | 37 | $718 |
| Minocycline Hcl | 23 | $561 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Middletown
- Gary WatermanMiddletown$16K
- Victoria ComeauMiddletown$7K
- Antoine SalloumMiddletown$4K
- Tal BuntinxMiddletown$3K
- John KellyEast Greenwich$97K
- Helena KuhnProvidence$63K
- Martin WeinstockProvidence$62K
- Farah MoustafaProvidence$51K
- Carlos WambierSouth Kingstown$41K
- Abrar QureshiProvidence$38K
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.