Sarah Bender, PA
Surgical · Raleigh, NCNPI 1508333469
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 37 payments — averaging $23.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$160
- Boston Scientific$123
- Abbott$89
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$68
- Si-bone, Inc.$67
- Bioventus LLC$52
- plus $314 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$874100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $160 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $123 |
| Abbott | 3 | $89 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $68 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $52 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $45 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $28 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $19 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 2 | $16 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$874 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 248 surgical providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 38 | $120 |
| Gabapentin | 16 | $111 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical in Raleigh
- Samantha BrownRaleigh$4K
- Andrea PaladinesRaleigh$3K
- Jillian VariRaleigh$3K
- Sarah HlavacekRaleigh$2K
- Allison BroderickRaleigh$2K
- Samantha MoyerRaleigh$2K
- Kristina StansonRaleigh$2K
- Rebecca ParsonsRaleigh$2K
- Ronald FazioRaleigh$2K
- Michael ModrowRaleigh$2K
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.