Robin Patel
Medical Microbiology · Rochester, MNNPI 1871573212
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (54.7%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 3 manufacturers reported payments, led by Accelerate Diagnostics Inc. at 57.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $5,236 and has fallen 54.2% since, to $2,400 in 2025.
Across 10 payments — averaging $913.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Accelerate Diagnostics Inc.$5K
- Biomerieux Inc$2K
- Abbott$2K
Across 50 payments — averaging $14,003 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$405K
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$131K
- Biomerieux Inc$108K
- Merck$32K
- Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$13K
- Shionogi Inc$13K
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Accelerate Diagnostics Inc. | 7 | $5,236 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 2 | $2,400 |
| 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$62K
- Bobbi PrittRochester$7K
- Adil MenonRochester$4K
- Audrey SchuetzRochester$0
- 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.