Richard Nowak
Emergency Medicine · Detroit, MINPI 1134293640
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $27,025 of the $38,102 with a category attached, or 70.9%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. at 53.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $15,102 and has fallen 97.4% since, to $400 in 2023. Among emergency medicine clinicians in MI 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 32 payments — averaging $1190.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$20K
- Roche Diagnostics Corporation$8K
- Abbott$5K
- Roche Diagnostics International Ltd$2K
- Quidel Corporation$2K
- Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC$1K
- plus $110 from 2 others
Across 125 payments — averaging $16,880 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.
- Abbott$829K
- Beckman Coulter, Inc.$566K
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$537K
- Ortho-clinical Diagnostics, Inc.$144K
- Provepharm Inc.$23K
- Fujirebio Diagnostics, Incorporated$8K
- plus $3K from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$27,02571%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,27919%
- Travel & lodging$2,6287%
- Food & beverage$1,1703%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 6 | $20,315 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 12 | $8,036 |
| Abbott | 5 | $4,840 |
| Roche Diagnostics International Ltd | 1 | $2,100 |
| Quidel Corporation | 4 | $1,600 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 2 | $1,102 |
| Beckman Coulter, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $11 |
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.
- CD cobas Reagents$7,869
- ADVIA Centaur XP Analyzer$4,200
- Alinity$2,579
- Elecsys Troponin T Gen 5 STAT$2,100
- I-STAT$2,025
- Xenleta$1,102
- TriageTrue$600
- Architect$119
- AlinIQ$117
How this compares
$38,102 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,532 emergency medicine providers in Michigan.
Other emergency medicine in Detroit
- Joseph MillerDetroit$202K
- Jacob ManteuffelDetroit$185K
- Phillip LevyDetroit$177K
- Robert WelchDetroit$44K
- Kimberlydawn WisdomDetroit$37K
- James PaxtonDetroit$10K
- Ankit NanavatiDetroit$10K
- Tolulope SonuyiDetroit$6K
- Dion SamersonDetroit$3K
- Claire PearsonDetroit$2K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.