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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Alcon Research LLC
Alcon Research LLC reported $23,672,580.64 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 795 physicians and teaching hospitals across 7,282 transactions.
- $23.7M
- All-tracks total
- 7,282
- Transactions
- 795
- Recipients
- +$4.9M
- General Payments vs PY2023
Alcon Research LLC reported $23,672,580.64 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 795 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #83 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.2% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $7,107,630.11, averaging $29.8K per recipient.
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CMS Sunshine Act warrant
Manufacturer alcon-research-llc Alcon Research LLC
$23.7M · #83/1,925 · 0.2% industry · PY2024
- TOT $23.7M
- RANK #83
- SHARE 0.2%
- TXN 7,282
- RCP 795
- CAT 8
- GEN $7.1M
- ΔGEN +$4.9M
- TOP1 58.1%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. ($23.6M)
Alcon Research LLC sits among 1,925 manufacturers disclosing under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Volume peers below are nearest by all-tracks total, not corporate affiliates. Open the company rankings →
Release-over-release change
General Payments changed from PY2023 to PY2024
Alcon Research LLC's CMS-reported General Payments increased by $4.9M (+218.3%) from PY2023 to PY2024.
How this year-over-year comparison is scoped
The comparison uses consecutive CMS program years only (current = prior + 1) from the manufacturer General Payments summary and excludes research and ownership or investment records. Non-consecutive year pairs are not shown as year-over-year change. This General Payments figure is not the all-tracks company total in the hero.
CMS source labels for this exact identifier: PY2022: ALCON RESEARCH LLCPY2023: ALCON RESEARCH LLCPY2024: Alcon Research LLC. Matching identifiers support a bounded record comparison; a label difference would be reported as unresolved rather than treated as a corporate event.
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General Payments: PY2023 vs PY2024
Annual CMS-reported totals for this company, not an all-category Open Payments total
- PY2023
- $2,233,135.51
- PY2024
- $7,107,630.11
What the Data Shows for Alcon Research LLC
In Program Year 2024, Alcon Research LLC reported $23,672,580.64 in payments to 795 physicians and teaching hospitals across 7,282 individual transactions, an average of $3.3K per transaction and $29.8K per recipient. That total places Alcon Research LLC at rank #83 out of 1,925 companies in the CMS Open Payments database, representing 0.2% of all industry payments reported nationwide for the year.
1 transactions worth $4.1M make "Acquisitions" the top general-payment category in the 8-category breakdown below, 58.0% of General Payments (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately).
General Payment Breakdown by Type
"Acquisitions" leads Alcon Research LLC's 8-category general-payment breakdown at $4.1M, 58.0% of the reported total.
Alcon Research LLC reports 8 general-payment categories - the top three are Acquisitions (58.0%), Consulting Fee (19.7%), and Royalty or License (10.6%). The remaining 5 categories make up 11.6% of this company's reported general-payment total. That multi-category mix is the kind of profile single-category reporters cannot show.
Category breadth matters here: Alcon Research LLC files across 8 named CMS general-payment types in Program Year 2024, versus manufacturers that report a single dominant category. The chart and table below enumerate every type with an amount above zero for this company.
How Alcon Research LLC divides its payments
How the reported total splits across payment categories
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acquisitions | $4.1M | 1 | 58.0% |
| Consulting Fee | $1.4M | 552 | 19.7% |
| Royalty or License | $753.8K | 2 | 10.6% |
| Grant | $625.0K | 6 | 8.8% |
| Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting | $88.2K | 26 | 1.2% |
| Travel and Lodging | $80.6K | 109 | 1.1% |
| Space Rental or Facility Fees | $25.9K | 5 | 0.4% |
| Food and Beverage | $6.9K | 94 | 0.1% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $5,347,675.99 (75.2%) of $7,107,630.11 in this company's General Payments records across 267 recipients.
General Payments scope note
Program Year 2024 General Payments view only: excludes research and ownership/investment records, so it is not the all-category company total above.
Largest General-Payment relationships for Alcon Research LLC
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Mark C Lobanoff
$4,133,000.00 across 2 reported transactions
- 2
Guy Kezirian
$453,750.00 across 1 reported transactions
- 3
Steve T Charles
$428,019.49 across 28 reported transactions
- 4
Uci Medical Center
$257,906.50 across 4 reported transactions
- 5
Andrew W Browne
$75,000.00 across 1 reported transactions
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What HHI 2,500 means here
2,500 is the DOJ/FTC merger-guidelines threshold for "highly concentrated" markets; used here only as a familiar concentration reference, not a legal finding about Alcon Research LLC.
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Data sourced from CMS Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act). See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPharmaWatch
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