Jayeshkumar Patel, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Houston, TXNPI 1730195793
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 70 payments — averaging $172.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$3K
- Transmedics, Inc.$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Abbott$865
- Edwards Lifesciences$357
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,04033%
- Travel & lodging$3,64030%
- Food & beverage$4,39536%
- Education$210%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 25 | $3,271 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $3,231 |
| Transmedics, Inc. | 1 | $2,325 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $1,010 |
| Abbott | 13 | $865 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $357 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $282 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $181 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $178 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $108 |
| Masimo Corporation | 3 | $90 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $34 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $34 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
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.
- VISTASEAL$3,030
- ORGAN CARE SYSTEM$2,325
- Impella$1,523
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$1,010
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$505
- FLOSEAL$245
- OPTIMIZER$181
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$178
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$142
- 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$139
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$136
- HeartMate Touch$129
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$120
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$119
- EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system$102
How this compares
$12,096 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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
- Michael ReardonHouston$2.7M
- Robert RipleyHouston$817K
- Danny RamzyHouston$620K
- Marc MoonHouston$476K
- Wayne HofstetterHouston$469K
- Eric PedenHouston$465K
- Gabriel LoorHouston$410K
- Igor GregoricHouston$359K
- Thomas MacgillivrayHouston$330K
- Min KimHouston$326K
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.