Harith Baldawi
Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1598385544
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 101 payments — averaging $42.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$1K
- Novo Nordisk$780
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$548
- Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.$362
- Medtronic$223
- AstraZeneca$203
- plus $944 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,84490%
- Education$43410%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 18 | $1,218 |
| Novo Nordisk | 15 | $780 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 16 | $548 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 12 | $362 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $223 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $203 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $168 |
| Amgen | 8 | $160 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $157 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $77 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $62 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $25 |
| Stryker | 1 | $24 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Bayer | 1 | $23 |
| Merck | 1 | $19 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Novartis | 1 | $16 |
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.
- ENSITE$774
- AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN$167
- GALLANT$159
- Carto 3$147
- Assure WCD$144
- NovoSeven$125
- LifeVest$116
How this compares
$4,278 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 25 | $318 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 30 | $198 |
| Losartan Potassium | 11 | $187 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 14 | $137 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 13 | $116 |
| Furosemide | 12 | $65 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 12 | $62 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 15 | $58 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Aung NaingHouston$30.6M
- Preetesh JainHouston$19.5M
- Paolo StratiHouston$19.2M
- Nicholas ShortHouston$17.6M
- Isabella GlitzaHouston$14.8M
- Murtaza MussajiHouston$13.1M
- Hussein TawbiHouston$12.6M
- Hans LeeHouston$11.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.