Boston Scientific: payments to doctors
Reported under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act for Open Payments program years 2019–2025. Figures group every CMS reporting entity belonging to this corporate parent.
- Total reported
- $683.5M
- Providers paid
- 196,507
- Transactions
- 1,459,952
- Average per transaction
- $468
The average per transaction — $468 — is the number worth reading. A large total spread across hundreds of thousands of transactions is a company buying a great many modest meals at educational presentations. A large total across few transactions means consulting, speaking or royalty arrangements with a small number of physicians. The totals alone do not distinguish them.
Where the money went
| State | Total reported | Share |
|---|---|---|
| California | $63,148,466 | 9.2% |
| New York | $61,552,311 | 9.0% |
| Michigan | $59,365,893 | 8.7% |
| Texas | $45,565,044 | 6.7% |
| Florida | $34,689,989 | 5.1% |
| Arizona | $34,129,289 | 5.0% |
| Ohio | $32,926,503 | 4.8% |
| Massachusetts | $32,122,712 | 4.7% |
| Washington | $29,829,322 | 4.4% |
| Maryland | $29,445,185 | 4.3% |
| Illinois | $24,829,278 | 3.6% |
| North Carolina | $24,580,965 | 3.6% |
| Pennsylvania | $21,302,349 | 3.1% |
| Tennessee | $15,538,476 | 2.3% |
| Georgia | $13,971,476 | 2.0% |
| Minnesota | $11,735,916 | 1.7% |
| Arkansas | $11,109,868 | 1.6% |
| Missouri | $10,129,764 | 1.5% |
| South Carolina | $9,634,431 | 1.4% |
| Virginia | $9,070,421 | 1.3% |
| Indiana | $8,942,106 | 1.3% |
| Louisiana | $8,574,247 | 1.3% |
| Colorado | $8,496,312 | 1.2% |
| Iowa | $7,892,782 | 1.2% |
| New Jersey | $7,744,004 | 1.1% |
| Alabama | $7,103,170 | 1.0% |
| Oregon | $6,589,044 | 1.0% |
| District of Columbia | $5,915,950 | 0.9% |
| Wisconsin | $5,892,144 | 0.9% |
| Utah | $4,068,195 | 0.6% |
| Kansas | $3,894,317 | 0.6% |
| Kentucky | $3,564,656 | 0.5% |
| West Virginia | $3,541,216 | 0.5% |
| Connecticut | $3,406,302 | 0.5% |
| Mississippi | $3,202,308 | 0.5% |
| New Hampshire | $3,088,058 | 0.5% |
| Nebraska | $2,440,026 | 0.4% |
| Idaho | $2,045,911 | 0.3% |
| North Dakota | $2,000,249 | 0.3% |
| Oklahoma | $1,973,376 | 0.3% |
| Puerto Rico | $1,183,986 | 0.2% |
| Vermont | $1,087,933 | 0.2% |
| Nevada | $1,074,007 | 0.2% |
| New Mexico | $870,726 | 0.1% |
| Rhode Island | $837,278 | 0.1% |
| Delaware | $725,822 | 0.1% |
| Maine | $684,563 | 0.1% |
| Montana | $596,768 | 0.1% |
| South Dakota | $589,005 | 0.1% |
| Hawaii | $503,477 | 0.1% |
| ZZ | $114,357 | 0.0% |
| Alaska | $97,156 | 0.0% |
| Wyoming | $85,074 | 0.0% |
| Guam | $27,880 | 0.0% |
| AE | $8,712 | 0.0% |
| AP | $571 | 0.0% |
| AA | $375 | 0.0% |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | $268 | 0.0% |
| XX | $24 | 0.0% |
Products named in Boston Scientific's payments
The drugs and devices most often named as the product a payment related to. A meal at a presentation about a product counts here, so this tracks what the company promotes as much as what it sells.
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$140,892,720
- SQ RX PULSE GENERATOR$16,181,746
- GENERAL EP$12,271,272
- WATCHMAN Access System$12,243,780
- Watchman$9,662,966
- GENERAL ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION$7,660,169
- GENERAL TACHY$7,300,552
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$6,894,029
- Farapulse$6,139,604
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$5,662,216
- CLINICAL TRIAL PRODUCT$5,287,289
- TheraSphere Y90 Glass Microspheres 10 GBq$5,191,164
- VERCISE$4,841,349
- GENERAL - BILIARY DEVICES$4,760,651
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$4,640,142