CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Avanos Medical
Avanos Medical reported $1,128,673.99 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 3,846 physicians and teaching hospitals across 3,887 transactions.
- $1.1M
- All-tracks total
- 3,887
- Transactions
- 3,846
- Recipients
- +$229.1K
- General Payments vs PY2023
Avanos Medical reported $1,128,673.99 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 3,846 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #593 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $867,206.49, averaging $293.47 per recipient.
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CMS Sunshine Act warrant
Manufacturer avanos-medical Avanos Medical
$1.1M · #593/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024
- TOT $1.1M
- RANK #593
- SHARE 0.0%
- TXN 3,887
- RCP 3,846
- CAT 5
- GEN $867.2K
- ΔGEN +$229.1K
- TOP1 6.9%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited ($1.1M)
Avanos Medical 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
Avanos Medical's CMS-reported General Payments increased by $229.1K (+35.9%) 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: AVANOS MEDICALPY2023: AVANOS MEDICALPY2024: Avanos Medical. 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
- $638,059.31
- PY2024
- $867,206.49
What the Data Shows for Avanos Medical
In Program Year 2024, Avanos Medical reported $1,128,673.99 in payments to 3,846 physicians and teaching hospitals across 3,887 individual transactions, an average of $290.37 per transaction and $293.47 per recipient. That total places Avanos Medical at rank #593 out of 1,925 companies in the CMS Open Payments database, a comparatively small 0.0% slice of all industry payments reported nationwide for the year.
The 5-category breakdown below covers general payments only (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately). The largest general-payment category is "Honoraria" at $643.1K, accounting for 74.2% of this company's General Payments and 183 transactions.
General Payment Breakdown by Type
"Honoraria" leads Avanos Medical's 5-category general-payment breakdown at $643.1K, 74.2% of the reported total.
Avanos Medical reports 5 general-payment categories - the top three are Honoraria (74.2%), Food and Beverage (16.0%), and Travel and Lodging (9.8%). The remaining 2 categories make up 0.1% of this company's reported general-payment total. That multi-category mix is the kind of profile single-category reporters cannot show.
How Avanos Medical divides its payments
Ranked by total dollars reported per category
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Honoraria | $643.1K | 183 | 74.2% |
| Food and Beverage | $138.5K | 3,399 | 16.0% |
| Travel and Lodging | $85.1K | 258 | 9.8% |
| Consulting Fee | $455.57 | 5 | 0.1% |
| Gift | $23.56 | 1 | 0.0% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $243,275.23 (28.1%) of $867,206.49 in this company's General Payments records across 2,714 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 Avanos Medical
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Felix Gonzalez
$59,404.98 across 41 reported transactions
- 2
Rajiv Tewari
$51,297.97 across 52 reported transactions
- 3
Maxim Eckmann
$46,898.23 across 40 reported transactions
- 4
Alaa Abd-Elsayed
$43,371.44 across 26 reported transactions
- 5
Sandeep Amin
$42,302.61 across 37 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 Avanos Medical.
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