Juan Granada
Interventional Cardiology · Houston, TXNPI 1831175363
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by ownership interests: $3,919,738 of the $4,065,285 with a category attached, or 96.4%. Cephea Valve Technologies, Inc. accounts for 96.4% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,412,323 and has fallen 97.8% since, to $73,451 in 2025. Among interventional cardiology 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.
Across 156 payments — averaging $26,060 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cephea Valve Technologies, Inc.$3.9M
- Abbott$136K
- Medtronic$5K
- Boston Scientific$5K
- Edwards Lifesciences$64
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$55
Across 3 payments — averaging $78,534 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.
- Abbott$236K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$114,8753%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0000%
- Grants$550%
- Travel & lodging$25,0241%
- Food & beverage$3,5930%
- Ownership interest$3,919,73896%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephea Valve Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $3,919,738 |
| Abbott | 133 | $135,607 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $5,270 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $4,551 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $64 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
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.
- MitraClip$13,154
- IN.PACT Admiral$5,000
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$3,500
- XIENCE SKYPOINT$1,250
- LINGO$1,176
- EKOSONIC$500
- Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve$377
- CoreValve Evolut$152
- GENERAL ATHERECTOMY$119
- AVEIR$117
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$108
How this compares
$4,065,285 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.
Other interventional cardiology in Houston
- 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
- Salman ArainHouston$108K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.