Farnaz Almasganj
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Rochester, MNNPI 1568672160
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $7,500 of the $9,219 with a category attached, or 81.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 81.6% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $8,538 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $18 in 2024. Among obstetrics & gynecology clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 87 payments — averaging $105.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- AbbVie$332
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$218
- Bayer$183
- Organon$167
- Merck$110
- plus $689 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,71919%
- Education$7,50081%
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 | 4 | $7,519 |
| AbbVie | 14 | $332 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 7 | $218 |
| Bayer | 8 | $183 |
| Organon | 9 | $167 |
| Merck | 7 | $110 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 6 | $100 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $52 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Amgen | 2 | $41 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 2 | $39 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $32 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $32 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $22 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $16 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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$7,500
- CoolSeal Generator$112
How this compares
$9,219 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 615 obstetrics & gynecology providers in Minnesota.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Rochester
- Jani JensenRochester$42K
- Regan TheilerRochester$20K
- Melissa RichardsRochester$6K
- Annetta MadsenRochester$6K
- Erik HokenstadRochester$5K
- Danielle FaldeRochester$5K
- Adela CopeRochester$3K
- Phoebe LeonardRochester$3K
- Eric EnglishLake Elmo$228K
- Matthew PalmerCrystal$138K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.