Obadah Aqtash, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Plano, TXNPI 1124473160
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 109 payments — averaging $305.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$23K
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Abbott$4K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$476
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$245
- Boston Scientific$193
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,5905%
- Grants$21,00063%
- Travel & lodging$4,01912%
- Food & beverage$6,21919%
- Education$4251%
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 | 22 | $23,340 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 29 | $4,199 |
| Abbott | 33 | $3,786 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $476 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $245 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $193 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $164 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $150 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $125 |
| Spectrawave, Inc | 1 | $120 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $100 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $98 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $26 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $20 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$22,535
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,696
- TRICLIP$980
- MitraClip$932
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$897
- NAVITOR$488
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$476
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$476
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$327
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$245
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$225
- Penumbra System$164
- XIENCE SKYPOINT$154
- ANGIO-SEAL$150
- GLIDESHEATH SLENDER$150
- MAMBA$148
- TurboHawk$136
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$130
- HyperVue Imaging System$120
- Starlight Imaging Catheter$120
How this compares
$33,252 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 77 | $579 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Plano
- Srinivasa PotluriPlano$5.1M
- Sameh SayfoPlano$2.5M
- Karim Al-AziziPlano$1.6M
- Molly SzerlipPlano$1.5M
- Vijay RamanathPlano$438K
- Robert StolerDallas$8.2M
- James ChoiDallas$5.2M
- Neal KleimanHouston$4.8M
- Juan GranadaHouston$4.3M
- Ira LieberKingwood$3.3M
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.