Joseph Yao
Medical Microbiology · Rochester, MNNPI 1720050388
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 204 payments — averaging $5570.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$760K
- Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.$294K
- Roche Diagnostics Corporation$44K
- Beckman Coulter, Inc.$19K
- Biomerieux Inc$18K
- F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$765
- plus $941 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$16,89827%
- Speaking & faculty fees$27,87445%
- Travel & lodging$14,51423%
- Food & beverage$2,4814%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 135 | $759,848 |
| Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. | 24 | $293,854 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 21 | $44,453 |
| Beckman Coulter, Inc. | 3 | $18,790 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 12 | $17,643 |
| F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG | 1 | $765 |
| Ortho-clinical Diagnostics, Inc. | 3 | $498 |
| BD | 2 | $260 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $137 |
| Cepheid | 1 | $46 |
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.
- BIOFIRE SPOTFIRE Respiratory/Sore Throat (R/ST) Panel$13,006
- cobas 6800 System$6,398
- CD cobas Analyzer Series$2,500
- MD Research and Development$1,946
- FilmArray Torch Module$221
- Alinity m$130
- Aptima$100
How this compares
Too few medical microbiology providers in Minnesotato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other medical microbiology in Rochester
- Robin PatelRochester$446K
- Bobbi PrittRochester$8K
- Audrey SchuetzRochester$5K
- Adil MenonRochester$4K
- Susan BowersMinneapolis$23
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.