Priyanka Bhugra
Cardiovascular Disease · Houston, TXNPI 1972989325
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 220 payments — averaging $40.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- Medtronic$1K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Amgen$838
- Abiomed$565
- Philips North America LLC$216
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$671%
- Travel & lodging$1,35115%
- Food & beverage$7,22681%
- Education$1111%
- Gifts$2172%
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 | 53 | $3,393 |
| Medtronic | 52 | $1,498 |
| Boston Scientific | 18 | $1,201 |
| Amgen | 44 | $838 |
| Abiomed | 10 | $565 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $216 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 2 | $207 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $198 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $167 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $125 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $70 |
| Novartis | 2 | $58 |
| GE HealthCare | 3 | $48 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $47 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $42 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $32 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
- GALLANT$1,191
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$536
- OPTIMIZER$361
- Impella$352
- DRAGONFLY OPSTAR$242
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$236
- AVVIGO Guidance System$232
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$151
- NAVITOR$146
- CARDIOMEMS$138
- WATCHMAN FLX$136
- ESPRIT$135
- OPTICROSS$130
- Repatha$120
- Orsiro Mission$117
- RESOLUTE ONYX$116
- (BQ9) Coronary IVUS$113
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$108
- (6342) Intrasight Integrated$104
How this compares
$8,971 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.
Other cardiovascular disease in Houston
- Christie BallantyneHouston$4.6M
- Syed NaqviHouston$3.6M
- James FeldmanHouston$3.1M
- Aditya SamalHouston$2.6M
- Pranav LoyalkaHouston$2.4M
- Anwar AhmadHouston$1.4M
- Reynolds DelgadoHouston$1.1M
- Richard SmallingHouston$908K
- Amin KarimHouston$853K
- Stephen LittleHouston$806K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.