Waseem Shami, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · El Paso, TXNPI 1043523137
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 94.7% of the total across 686 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 41 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 12.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,752 and has fallen 56.0% since, to $1,652 in 2025.
Across 686 payments — averaging $24.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Abiomed$927
- plus $8K from 35 others
Across 12 payments — averaging $866.42 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Stryker$5K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$5K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8645%
- Food & beverage$15,97595%
- Education$230%
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.
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.
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$1,174
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$1,174
- Impella$532
- CARDIOMEMS$264
- MetaCross$251
- Confirm Rx$251
- FARXIGA$247
- Abre$232
- HawkOne$188
- TurboHawk$186
- SYMPLICITY G3$158
- UPTRAVI$150
- OPSUMIT$150
- TR Band$146
- Glidesheath$146
- Sublime 014 Rx PTA Balloon Dilatation Catheter$146
- Sublime Microcatheter, 018, 200cm, Straight$146
- Pounce Thrombectomy System$146
- Pounce Thrombectomy$146
- Pounce Venous Thrombectomy System$146
How this compares
$16,863 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 178 | $242,167 |
| CamzyosMavacamten | 15 | $119,937 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 49 | $65,447 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 22 | $24,616 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 22 | $15,210 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 13 | $14,945 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 18 | $14,896 |
| Repatha SyringeEvolocumab | 12 | $10,322 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 12 | $7,924 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 14 | $2,577 |
| Valsartan | 120 | $2,394 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 133 | $2,214 |
| Carvedilol | 259 | $1,997 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 195 | $1,821 |
| Icosapent Ethyl | 19 | $1,472 |
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 | $919 | $242,167178 claims |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Camzyos | $470 | $119,93715 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $1,024 | $65,44749 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $923 | $24,61622 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga | $523 | $23,13334 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 85th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.
Other cardiovascular disease in El Paso
- David TurbayEl Paso$175K
- Venkatachalam MulukutlaEl Paso$157K
- Juan TaverasEl Paso$91K
- Ramin Farzaneh-FarDallas$17.1M
- John OsborneGrapevine$1.3M
- Darren McGuireDallas$1.2M
- Peter McCulloughDallas$664K
- Ann NavarDallas$616K
- Biykem BozkurtHouston$606K
- Milton PackerDallas$530K
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.