Faisal Bakaeen, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Houston, TXNPI 1811908700
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,427 of the $9,073 with a category attached, or 70.8%. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 75.6% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,220 and has fallen 87.8% since, to $883 in 2025.
Across 28 payments — averaging $324.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$7K
- JACE Medical LLC$537
- Medistim USA, Inc.$412
- Corcym Inc$377
- Bolton Medical Inc$252
- Dilon Technologies, Inc.$183
- plus $452 from 6 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $5960.97 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.
- Vascular Graft Solutions Inc$36K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5376%
- Travel & lodging$6,42771%
- Food & beverage$2,10923%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 4 | $6,861 |
| JACE Medical LLC | 2 | $537 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 2 | $412 |
| Corcym Inc | 4 | $377 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $252 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $183 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $171 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 3 | $106 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $63 |
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 1 | $42 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $36 |
| Nexus Medical Technologies LLC | 1 | $33 |
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.
- MiraQ$412
- Perceval$337
- HemoBlast Bellows$153
- Relay Plus$139
- Octopus$120
- THORAFLEX HYBRID$113
How this compares
$9,073 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 424 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) 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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Houston
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- Danny RamzyHouston$527K
- Randall WolfHouston$283K
- Min KimHouston$185K
- Marc MoonHouston$142K
- Ismael Salas de ArmasHouston$121K
- Shawn GrothHouston$110K
- Mahesh RamchandaniHouston$110K
- Gabriel LoorHouston$106K
- Mara AntonoffHouston$104K
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.