Jing Liu
Interventional Cardiology · Houston, TXNPI 1396132858
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,427 of the $8,050 with a category attached, or 67.4%. Abbott accounts for 61.1% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,401 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $25 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional cardiology clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $9,094.
Across 116 payments — averaging $69.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$5K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Amgen$284
- Abiomed$284
- Pfizer$159
- Edwards Lifesciences$128
- plus $407 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,62333%
- Food & beverage$5,42767%
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 | 55 | $4,920 |
| Boston Scientific | 21 | $1,868 |
| Amgen | 13 | $284 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $284 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $159 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $128 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Novartis | 5 | $82 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $16 |
| Bayer | 1 | $14 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 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.
- EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System$1,379
- Ensite Cardiac Mapping System$649
- CardioMEMS HF System$455
- Fortify Assura$353
- Accent Pacemaker$260
- Quadra Assura CRT Defibrillator$258
- Assurity Pacemaker$257
- Impella$251
- QUADRA ASSURA$177
- Merlin Connectivity and Remote$143
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$128
- WOLVERINE CORONARY CUTTING BALLOON$125
- SAMURAI$105
- SYNERGY$104
How this compares
$8,050 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.
Other interventional cardiology in Houston
- Juan GranadaHouston$4.1M
- John IsaacHouston$1.8M
- Sanjay KunapuliHouston$267K
- Michele SartoriHouston$266K
- Abhijeet DhobleHouston$161K
- Amir KashaniHouston$148K
- Dhaval ParekhHouston$137K
- Neal KleimanHouston$118K
- Mehran MassumiHouston$114K
- Eduardo HernandezHouston$112K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.