Chirag Patel
Interventional Cardiology · Houston, TXNPI 1790212850
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 86 payments — averaging $35.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$565
- Medtronic$412
- Boston Scientific$373
- Edwards Lifesciences$304
- Abbott$208
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$208
- plus $983 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,54283%
- Education$51017%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 20 | $565 |
| Medtronic | 12 | $412 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $373 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $304 |
| Abbott | 1 | $208 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 9 | $208 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 10 | $162 |
| Stryker | 1 | $154 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $141 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $134 |
| Novartis | 4 | $75 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $48 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 3 | $43 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $28 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $22 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $20 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $14 |
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
$3,052 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.
Other interventional cardiology in Houston
- Neal KleimanHouston$4.8M
- Juan GranadaHouston$4.3M
- Abhijeet DhobleHouston$2.7M
- John IsaacHouston$1.8M
- Amir KashaniHouston$1.3M
- Biswajit KarHouston$785K
- Michele SartoriHouston$603K
- Guilherme SilvaHouston$516K
- Sachin KumarHouston$446K
- Marwan JumeanHouston$427K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.