Laith Dinkha
Internal Medicine · Jbsa Fort Sam Houston, TXNPI 1710390398
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (55.2%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 35.0% of the total. 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.
Across 109 payments — averaging $81.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Abiomed$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$693
- Abbott$497
- Penumbra, Inc.$418
- plus $590 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,82443%
- Food & beverage$4,88555%
- Education$1432%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 43 | $3,102 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $2,229 |
| Boston Scientific | 20 | $1,323 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 11 | $693 |
| Abbott | 8 | $497 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 4 | $418 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $119 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $117 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Medicomp Inc | 3 | $81 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $57 |
| Amgen | 2 | $25 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $20 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
| Pfizer | 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.
- Impella$2,037
- ONYX FRONTIER$1,022
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$750
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$546
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$546
- RUBY Coil$418
- RESOLUTE ONYX$251
- SYMPLICITY G3$231
- AVVIGO Guidance System$220
- OPTIMIZER$206
- HawkOne$154
- XIENCE SKYPOINT$154
- Diamondback Coronary$138
- MANTA$119
- RYBELSUS$117
How this compares
$8,852 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Other internal medicine in Jbsa Fort Sam Houston
- Spencer BerthelsenSugar Land$891K
- Hameed AliTemple$773K
- Marc TribbleDallas$693K
- Gary SinclairDallas$599K
- Mohammed Al-NajjarEl Paso$586K
- Han SchmidlyDallas$465K
- Hussein TawbiHouston$365K
- Hans LeeHouston$327K
- Tapan KadiaHouston$311K
- Nitin JainHouston$281K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.