Thomas Flautt, DO
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Houston, TXNPI 1215342241
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 952 payments — averaging $78.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$32K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$20K
- Abbott$7K
- Boston Scientific$5K
- Biotronik Inc.$3K
- Pfizer$867
- plus $6K from 39 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,19714%
- Grants$22,64230%
- Travel & lodging$15,16420%
- Food & beverage$25,77135%
- Education$5091%
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.
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.
- Carto 3$12,698
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$2,714
- AVEIR$1,557
- Arctic Front$1,165
- OPTIMIZER$652
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$642
- Micra$499
- LUX-Dx Insertable Cardiac Monitor$400
- Fortify Assura$312
- ENSITE$273
- SelectSecure$267
- QDOT MICRO Catheter$250
- AFFERA MAPPING SYSTEM$246
- ENSITE PRECISION$223
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$192
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$187
- Confirm Rx$180
- Acticor 7 VR-T DX$179
- PulseSelect$175
- ACCENT$172
How this compares
$74,283 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 233 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Texas.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 263 | $176,190 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 66 | $40,215 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 56 | $34,264 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 43 | $27,144 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 12 | $18,399 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 17 | $8,381 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 282 | $6,086 |
| Sucralfate | 45 | $5,307 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 277 | $1,872 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 187 | $1,623 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 137 | $1,220 |
| Propafenone Hcl | 13 | $540 |
| Minocycline Hcl | 149 | $523 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 101 | $497 |
| Bisoprolol Fumarate | 35 | $485 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $867 | $176,190263 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $381 | $40,21566 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $270 | $34,26456 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $279 | $27,14443 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 65th percentile of 233 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Texas.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Houston
- Miguel ValderrabanoHouston$1.3M
- Ramesh HariharanHouston$793K
- Abdi RasekhHouston$728K
- Amir AzeemHouston$488K
- Mehdi RazaviHouston$390K
- Ilyas ColombowalaHouston$362K
- Ijeoma EkeruoHouston$353K
- John SegerHouston$300K
- Mihail CheluHouston$256K
- Jie ChengHouston$176K
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.