Dhaval Parekh, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Houston, TXNPI 1942336078
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $92,250 of the $137,485 with a category attached, or 67.1%. Abbott accounts for 61.8% of it on its own, with 39 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among interventional cardiology clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 604 payments — averaging $227.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$85K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$19K
- Medtronic$13K
- Edwards Lifesciences$7K
- Penumbra, Inc.$3K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$3K
- plus $8K from 34 others
Across 9 payments — averaging $1226.57 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.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$11K
- Abiomed$315
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$92,25067%
- Travel & lodging$18,97514%
- Food & beverage$26,26019%
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.
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.
- AMPLATZER Occluders$45,617
- AMPLATZER TALISMAN$18,403
- GORE CARDIOFORM Septal Occluder$16,354
- AMPLATZER$11,103
- HARMONY$6,578
- AMPLATZER AMULET$4,313
- Indigo System$3,166
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$2,364
- GORE CARDIOFORM ASD Occluder$1,950
- AlphaVac$1,705
- AngioVac$1,239
- OPTIMIZER$1,223
- THE EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 VALVE WITH ALTERRA ADAPTIVE PRESTENT SYSTEM$1,186
- Melody$1,073
- Mitra Clip system$1,068
- MELODY TPV$824
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$768
- CARDIOMEMS$505
- SYMPLICITY G3$451
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$381
How this compares
$137,485 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 14 | $12,945 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 25 | $242 |
| Carvedilol | 15 | $206 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 12 | $182 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 18 | $147 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 15 | $126 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 16 | $110 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 19 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Houston
- Juan GranadaHouston$4.1M
- John IsaacHouston$1.8M
- Sanjay KunapuliHouston$267K
- Michele SartoriHouston$266K
- Abhijeet DhobleHouston$161K
- Amir KashaniHouston$148K
- Neal KleimanHouston$118K
- Mehran MassumiHouston$114K
- Eduardo HernandezHouston$112K
- Salman ArainHouston$108K
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.