Arsalan Saleem, MD
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Galveston, TXNPI 1801279112
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,936 of the $10,887 with a category attached, or 72.9%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Inari Medical, Inc. at 27.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $4,447 and has fallen 62.1% since, to $1,685 in 2025.
Across 97 payments — averaging $112.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Inari Medical, Inc.$3K
- Argon Medical Devices, Inc.$2K
- Penumbra, Inc.$1K
- Sirtex Medical Inc$1K
- Boston Scientific$660
- Imperative Care, Inc$536
- plus $2K from 15 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $2497.63 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.
- Stryker$20K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5005%
- Travel & lodging$2,45123%
- Food & beverage$7,93673%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 19 | $3,003 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 11 | $1,575 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 8 | $1,450 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 10 | $1,210 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $660 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 10 | $536 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $500 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $337 |
| Endologix LLC | 2 | $295 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $261 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $228 |
| Flowphysix Inc | 1 | $157 |
| Stryker | 1 | $146 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $128 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $116 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $96 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $80 |
| Abbott | 1 | $32 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $20 |
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.
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$2,666
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$2,666
- OPTION$1,450
- SIR-Spheres Microspheres$1,204
- Indigo System$1,101
- CLEANER$1,066
- Senza$241
- Torus Stent Graft System$208
- ENDOCROSS Device$208
- SYMPHONY CATHETER$162
- FLOWRUNNER$157
- FlowTriever$146
- SpyGlass Discover$144
- EMBOLD Fibered$140
- Embotrap$128
- Abre$125
- RUBY Coil$125
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$122
- ALIYA SYSTEM$116
- GENERAL EMBOLICS$114
How this compares
$10,887 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 299 vascular & interventional radiology providers in Texas.
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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 vascular & interventional radiology in Galveston
- Orlando DiazHouston$611K
- Rahul ShethHouston$410K
- Miguel MonteroHouston$386K
- Joshua KubanHouston$301K
- Peiman HabibollahiHouston$254K
- Ahmed Abdel AalHouston$147K
- Varshana GurusamyHouston$141K
- Sanjeeva KalvaDallas$128K
- Mehrzad ZarghouniBellaire$127K
- John FitzsimonsGarland$127K
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.