Talha Ahmed, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Houston, TXNPI 1598288201
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 61 payments — averaging $332.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$9K
- Boston Scientific$5K
- Abbott$3K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Cardiva Medical, Inc.$176
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$138
- plus $649 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$16,70082%
- Travel & lodging$9915%
- Food & beverage$2,48712%
- Education$1000%
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 | 5 | $9,097 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $5,042 |
| Abbott | 3 | $3,124 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 23 | $2,052 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 7 | $176 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Gilead | 1 | $125 |
| Amgen | 6 | $109 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $41 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $38 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $33 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
| AstraZeneca | 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.
How this compares
$20,277 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th 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.
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).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.