Salah El Hafi
Interventional Cardiology · Houston, TXNPI 1396969622
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 110 payments — averaging $86.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- AstraZeneca$3K
- Novartis$1K
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$268
- Johnson & Johnson$185
- Amgen$167
- plus $731 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,65352%
- Food & beverage$2,25244%
- Education$1954%
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 | 25 | $3,545 |
| AstraZeneca | 13 | $3,163 |
| Novartis | 4 | $1,415 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 7 | $268 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 15 | $185 |
| Amgen | 9 | $167 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $141 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $130 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $101 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $67 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $61 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $54 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $52 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $35 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $30 |
| Gilead | 1 | $19 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Reveal LINQ$1,521
- Resolute$1,430
How this compares
$9,474 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.
Other interventional cardiology in Houston
- Neal KleimanHouston$4.8M
- Juan GranadaHouston$4.3M
- Abhijeet DhobleHouston$2.7M
- John IsaacHouston$1.8M
- Amir KashaniHouston$1.3M
- Biswajit KarHouston$785K
- Michele SartoriHouston$603K
- Guilherme SilvaHouston$516K
- Sachin KumarHouston$446K
- Marwan JumeanHouston$427K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.