Has Hytham Rashid received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $13,469 in general payments to Hytham Rashid across 121 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Hytham Rashid did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Hytham Rashid come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Hytham Rashid

Internal Medicine · Kingwood, TXNPI 1376003178

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (50.6%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 24.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $11,537, more than ten times the $389 reported in 2023. Among internal medicine clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$13,469in general payments, 2019–2025

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.

How this compares

$13,469 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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