Mark Schleiss
Pediatrics · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1942382452
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $21,910 of the $29,211 with a category attached, or 75.0%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by VBI Vaccine (delaware) Inc. at 32.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $12,204 and has fallen 90.2% since, to $1,200 in 2025. Among pediatrics 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 27 payments — averaging $1081.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- VBI Vaccine (delaware) Inc.$9K
- Saol Therapeutics Inc.$6K
- Merck$4K
- Modernatx, Inc.$4K
- Roche Diagnostics Corporation$3K
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$2K
- plus $1K from 1 others
Across 65 payments — averaging $22,107 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Modernatx, Inc.$1.4M
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$21,91075%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,6459%
- Travel & lodging$3,53512%
- Food & beverage$1,1214%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| VBI Vaccine (delaware) Inc. | 1 | $9,375 |
| Saol Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $6,000 |
| Merck | 2 | $4,275 |
| Modernatx, Inc. | 10 | $4,029 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 1 | $2,645 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 10 | $1,676 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | 1 | $1,210 |
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.
- PreHevbrio$9,375
- Cytogam$6,000
- V160$4,275
- NO PRODUCT DISCUSSED$1,442
How this compares
$29,211 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 397 pediatrics providers in Minnesota.
Other pediatrics in Minneapolis
- Kyriakie SarafoglouMinneapolis$77K
- Gurumurthy Hiremath MallikarjunMinneapolis$56K
- Chester WhitleyMinneapolis$40K
- Charlotte HobbsMinneapolis$30K
- Erick Jimenez GranadosMinneapolis$18K
- Claudia FoxMinneapolis$16K
- Angela GoepferdMinneapolis$10K
- Timothy CapecchiMinneapolis$8K
- Sara ElsbeckerMinneapolis$5K
- Amy GoldsteinMinneapolis$4K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.