Stephen Little, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Houston, TXNPI 1659412336
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 355 payments — averaging $2271.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$635K
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$92K
- Medtronic$75K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Boston Scientific$161
- GE HealthCare$145
- plus $645 from 14 others
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 | 237 | $635,452 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 16 | $91,892 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 67 | $74,996 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 10 | $3,143 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $161 |
| GE HealthCare | 3 | $145 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $122 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Jenavalve Technology, Inc. | 2 | $103 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $58 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $37 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $26 |
| Bracco Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Amgen | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$806,433 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease 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.
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
- Joggy GeorgeHouston$634K
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.