Jazba Soomro, MD
Neurology · Houston, TXNPI 1841555760
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $4,979 of the $6,316 with a category attached, or 78.8%. Medtronic accounts for 80.2% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,632 and has fallen 98.0% since, to $93 in 2025.
Across 31 payments — averaging $203.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Penumbra, Inc.$596
- Stryker$206
- Imperative Care, Inc$155
- Microvention, Inc.$60
- Qapel Medical Inc$54
- plus $181 from 5 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $7940.82 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.
- MIVI Neuroscience, Inc.$56K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,97979%
- Food & beverage$1,33721%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 17 | $5,063 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 3 | $596 |
| Stryker | 2 | $206 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $155 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 1 | $60 |
| Qapel Medical Inc | 1 | $54 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $48 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Phenox Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $36 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Solitaire$4,062
- Penumbra System$567
- Onyx$487
- Pipeline$231
- ZOOM 88-T LARGE DISTAL PLATFORM$155
- EVOLVE$149
How this compares
$6,316 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,246 neurology providers in Texas.
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 neurology in Houston
- William OndoHouston$1.4M
- Pankaj SatijaHouston$1.1M
- Annette HowardHouston$826K
- Randolph EvansHouston$493K
- Leorah FreemanHouston$401K
- Mazen DimachkieHouston$388K
- Zsila SadighiHouston$361K
- Joseph JankovicHouston$323K
- Raja MehannaHouston$300K
- Eddie PattonHouston$299K
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.