Robin Patel
Medical Microbiology · Rochester, MNNPI 1871573212
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 41 payments — averaging $10,880 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biofire Diagnostics, LLC$248K
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$131K
- Merck$32K
- Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$13K
- Shionogi Inc$13K
- Accelerate Diagnostics Inc.$5K
- plus $5K from 2 others
Across 19 payments — averaging $13,853 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.
- Biofire Diagnostics, LLC$157K
- Biomerieux Inc$106K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,00055%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,40026%
- Travel & lodging$1,73619%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biofire Diagnostics, LLC | 17 | $247,819 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $130,620 |
| Merck | 6 | $31,986 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $12,501 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $12,501 |
| Accelerate Diagnostics Inc. | 7 | $5,236 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 3 | $3,900 |
| Abbott | 1 | $1,500 |
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.
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
- Joseph YaoRochester$1.1M
- 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.