Valerie Sorkin Wells
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Phoenix, AZNPI 1962448456
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 524 payments — averaging $9559.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Evofem Biosciences, Inc.$1.3M
- Astellas Pharma Global Development$1.1M
- Mylan Inc.$805K
- Organon$679K
- Exeltis, USA Inc.$665K
- Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Development America, Inc.$203K
- plus $260K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,01845%
- Food & beverage$1,20953%
- Education$442%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 57 | $1,286,963 |
| Astellas Pharma Global Development | 100 | $1,110,150 |
| Mylan Inc. | 31 | $804,858 |
| Organon | 120 | $679,311 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 53 | $664,889 |
| Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Development America, Inc. | 6 | $203,003 |
| Bayer | 82 | $191,482 |
| Merck | 6 | $36,722 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 3 | $18,175 |
| Genbiopro, Inc. | 1 | $11,541 |
| Acessa Health Inc. | 1 | $1,018 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 25 | $283 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc | 3 | $143 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 5 | $89 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 4 | $79 |
| Mylan Technologies Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $56 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $53 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 2 | $41 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $41 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Duchesnay USA Incorporated | 2 | $30 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Lupin Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $23 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $11 |
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.
How this compares
$5,009,173 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 757 obstetrics & gynecology providers in Arizona.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Phoenix
- Charles PlimptonPhoenix$7.9M
- Nicholas BujakPhoenix$662K
- Steven NelsonPhoenix$159K
- Bj HoPhoenix$134K
- Dean CoonrodPhoenix$119K
- Chijioke SoribePhoenix$117K
- Heather ZechmanPhoenix$92K
- David GlassmanPhoenix$90K
- Meghan MacclearyPhoenix$87K
- Melissa ParksPhoenix$67K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.