Hytham Rashid
Internal Medicine · Kingwood, TXNPI 1376003178
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 121 payments — averaging $111.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- Medtronic$3K
- Biotronik Inc.$2K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$2K
- Abiomed$810
- Boston Scientific$300
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,15846%
- Food & beverage$6,81551%
- Education$4954%
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 | 30 | $3,357 |
| Medtronic | 27 | $3,237 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 18 | $2,465 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 15 | $1,996 |
| Abiomed | 11 | $810 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $300 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $231 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $188 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $162 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $130 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $122 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Merck | 3 | $65 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
| Novartis | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Carto 3$1,674
- MERLIN@HOME$1,015
- ENSITE$495
- CARDIOMEMS$436
- Impella$291
- DRAGONFLY OPSTAR$273
- GALLANT$270
- Micra$190
- FFRct$162
- Attruby$143
- GUIDELINER$130
- SYNERGY$130
- CAMZYOS$122
- ZIO XT Patch$109
- Zio monitor$109
- XIENCE SKYPOINT$102
How this compares
$13,469 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Other internal medicine in Kingwood
- Jan BurgerHouston$47.3M
- Nitin JainHouston$33.2M
- Muhammad IrfanTomball$30.6M
- Aung NaingHouston$30.6M
- Robert BassSan Antonio$25.6M
- Preetesh JainHouston$19.5M
- Paolo StratiHouston$19.2M
- Hernan SalazarSan Antonio$18.5M
- Nicholas ShortHouston$17.6M
- Salma SaigerMesquite$16.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.