Mukhtar Al Saadi
Critical Care Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1164678280
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 87 payments — averaging $99.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Abbott$3K
- Abiomed$656
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$325
- Boston Scientific$299
- Amgen$292
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,88433%
- Travel & lodging$94311%
- Food & beverage$4,38551%
- Education$4695%
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 | 1 | $2,884 |
| Abbott | 26 | $2,544 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $656 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 5 | $325 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $299 |
| Amgen | 7 | $292 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 4 | $263 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $245 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $170 |
| Merck | 7 | $167 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $154 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $117 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 1 | $102 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $68 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $49 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $45 |
| GSK | 1 | $30 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $29 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- ESPRIT$629
- CARDIOMEMS$436
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$238
- SUPERA$217
- Impella$162
- ENSITE$136
- GUIDELINER$130
- TRICLIP$129
- UPTRAVI$128
- OPSUMIT$128
- DRAGONFLY OPSTAR$125
- Repatha$122
- Zio monitor$109
- ZIO XT Patch$109
- Pulmonx Endobronchial Valve EBV$102
How this compares
$8,681 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 507 critical care medicine providers in Texas.
Other critical care medicine in Houston
- Deepa GoturHouston$1.1M
- Matt KhoshnevisHouston$759K
- Rodeo AbrencilloHouston$616K
- Bindu AkkantiHouston$288K
- Edwin ParsleyHouston$283K
- Daniela MoranHouston$276K
- Faisal MasudHouston$219K
- George WilliamsHouston$188K
- Sergio Trevino CastilloHouston$133K
- Prangthip CharoenpongHouston$67K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.