Waqaar Diwan
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Houston, TXNPI 1568969533
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 31 payments — averaging $170.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Penumbra, Inc.$998
- Johnson & Johnson$546
- Sirtex Medical Inc$353
- Boston Scientific$203
- Cook Medical LLC$158
- plus $255 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$2,54248%
- Food & beverage$2,74052%
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(2 entities) | 4 | $2,769 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 7 | $998 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $546 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 4 | $353 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $203 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $158 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 1 | $143 |
| BD | 2 | $44 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $24 |
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.
- Indigo System$998
- Neuwave$357
- SIR-Spheres Microspheres$185
- Prestige Coil System$143
- LAVA LES (Liquid Embolic System)$143
- Cook Celect$131
- Embotrap$130
- Abre$125
- ELUVIA$123
How this compares
$5,282 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 299 vascular & interventional radiology 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.
Other vascular & interventional radiology in Houston
- Armeen MahvashHouston$2.6M
- Rony AvritscherHouston$1.3M
- Orlando DiazHouston$699K
- Rahul ShethHouston$511K
- Miguel MonteroHouston$482K
- Marshall HicksHouston$403K
- Ahmed Abdel AalHouston$372K
- Joshua KubanHouston$349K
- Peiman HabibollahiHouston$254K
- Varshana GurusamyHouston$141K
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.