Robert Pignolo, MD
Internal Medicine · Rochester, MNNPI 1558302315
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $37,125 of the $51,977 with a category attached, or 71.4%. Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc accounts for 94.3% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among internal medicine 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 22 payments — averaging $2362.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$49K
- Regeneron$3K
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$50
- Ipsen Biopharm Limited$25
Across 552 payments — averaging $3507.88 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.
- Regeneron$591K
- Incyte Corporation$533K
- Ipsen Innovation$393K
- Ipsen Bioscience Inc.$220K
- GSK$131K
- Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$36K
- plus $33K from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,3258%
- Speaking & faculty fees$37,12571%
- Travel & lodging$5,18810%
- Food & beverage$3391%
- Education$5,00010%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 15 | $49,016 |
| Regeneron | 5 | $2,886 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Ipsen Biopharm Limited | 1 | $25 |
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.
- Sohonos$22,099
How this compares
$51,977 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,924 internal medicine providers in Minnesota.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other internal medicine in Rochester
- Gregory PolandRochester$494K
- Ekta KapoorRochester$55K
- Luke SeaburgRochester$55K
- Ilya ShadrinRochester$35K
- Brian JonesRochester$34K
- Jody OlsonRochester$26K
- James HaysRochester$23K
- Amit SoodRochester$22K
- Larissa Fujii-LauRochester$22K
- Ryan HurtRochester$19K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.