Darin Passer, MD
Surgery · Albert Lea, MNNPI 1437216579
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 44 payments — averaging $226.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- Medtronic$423
- Boston Scientific$324
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$125
- Davol Inc.$56
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$50
- plus $161 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,46515%
- Food & beverage$1,50315%
- Education$7,00070%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 18 | $8,830 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $423 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $324 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $50 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$7,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,427
How this compares
$9,968 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 498 surgery providers in Minnesota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 36 | $654 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 70 | $489 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 91 | $452 |
| Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 17 | $240 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 17 | $221 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 14 | $203 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 31 | $142 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 15 | $125 |
| Mupirocin | 18 | $113 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Albert Lea
- Travis GrotzRochester$818K
- Sean ClearyRochester$802K
- Sandra EngwallBrooklyn Center$655K
- Judy BougheyRochester$642K
- Uroghupatei IyeghaMinneapolis$569K
- Stephen HuddlestonDuluth$442K
- Jayson DockShakopee$266K
- Charles SvendsenMinneapolis$266K
- Michael KendrickRochester$237K
- Raja KandaswamyMinneapolis$222K
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.