Michael Richards
Pediatrics · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1699741652
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 1 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Octapharma USA, Inc.. That places this record below the midpoint for pediatrics clinicians in MN, where the typical reported total is $64.
Across 1 payment — averaging $54.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Octapharma USA, Inc.$55
Across 128 payments — averaging $10,492 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.
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$1.2M
- Merck$73K
- Incyte Corporation$43K
- Gilead$20K
- Pfizer$3K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$55100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
How this compares
$55 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 397 pediatrics providers in Minnesota.
Other pediatrics in Minneapolis
- Kyriakie SarafoglouMinneapolis$77K
- Gurumurthy Hiremath MallikarjunMinneapolis$56K
- Chester WhitleyMinneapolis$40K
- Charlotte HobbsMinneapolis$30K
- Mark SchleissMinneapolis$29K
- Erick Jimenez GranadosMinneapolis$18K
- Claudia FoxMinneapolis$16K
- Angela GoepferdMinneapolis$10K
- Timothy CapecchiMinneapolis$8K
- Sara ElsbeckerMinneapolis$5K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.