Has Rody Bou Chaaya, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,019 in general payments to Rody Bou Chaaya, MD across 153 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Rody Bou Chaaya, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Rody Bou Chaaya, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Rody Bou Chaaya, MD

Hospitalist · Baytown, TXNPI 1164085999

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,072 of the $6,019 with a category attached, or 84.3%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 35.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,854 and has fallen 57.1% since, to $1,225 in 2025. Among hospitalist 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.

$6,019in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 153 payments — averaging $39.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$2K
Abbott$971
Abiomed$557
Boston Scientific$444
Edwards Lifesciences$351
Philips North America LLC$216
plus $1K from 18 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4968%
Food & beverage$5,07284%
Education$4517%

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	42	$2,139
Abbott	20	$971
Abiomed	4	$557
Boston Scientific	13	$444
Edwards Lifesciences	4	$351
Philips North America LLC	2	$216
Pfizer	19	$205
Boehringer Ingelheim	10	$186
Amgen	11	$165
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$133
Biotronik Inc.	1	$117
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$108
Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.	3	$59
Novartis	3	$56
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	2	$51
Bridgebio Pharma, Inc.	2	$51
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$47
Stryker	1	$42
Johnson & Johnson	2	$36
AstraZeneca	1	$18
Bayer	1	$17
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd.	1	$17
Terumo Medical Corporation	1	$16
GE HealthCare	1	$14

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$992
Impella$496
THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$236
RESOLUTE ONYX$183
SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$151
NAVITOR$146
THE EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 VALVE WITH ALTERRA ADAPTIVE PRESTENT SYSTEM$140
WATCHMAN FLX$136
ENSITE$134
COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$134
GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$123
Orsiro Mission$117
HARMONY$115
(BQ9) Coronary IVUS$113
GORE CARDIOFORM Septal Occluder$108
(6342) Intrasight Integrated$104

How this compares

$6,019 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,284 hospitalist providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$2,405

Medicare patients

Services billed

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.

Other hospitalist in Baytown

Daniel NguyenBaytown$4K
Maricel JumawanBaytown$3K
Kenechukwu EnekebeCorpus Christi$311K
Ryan NealHouston$154K
Sarah SmileyAustin$90K
Mubeen CheemaSan Antonio$50K
Ahmad BaroutHouston$44K
Tarek HammadSan Antonio$42K
Hendre FichardtSan Antonio$36K
Sadie Trammell VelasquezSan Antonio$36K

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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.

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