BAXTER HEALTHCARE

In Program Year 2024, BAXTER HEALTHCARE reported $6,360,044.49 in payments to 26,085 physicians and teaching hospitals across 26,141 individual transactions — an average of $243.30 per transaction and $243.82 per recipient. That total places BAXTER HEALTHCARE at rank #219 out of 1,797 companies in the CMS Open Payments database, representing 0.0% of all industry payments reported nationwide for the year. Payment volume at this scale is characteristic of manufacturers with broad prescriber engagement, active clinical research programs, or patented therapies generating ongoing royalty obligations.

The payment mix for BAXTER HEALTHCARE spans 8 distinct categories defined by CMS — including general payments (consulting, speaker fees, meals, travel), research payments tied to clinical trials, and ownership or investment interests. The largest single category is "Debt Forgiveness" at $1.6M, accounting for 25.5% of the company's reported total and 1,674 transactions. This distribution matters because different payment types carry different regulatory and ethical implications: research funding supports clinical development, while general payments like meals and speaker fees have been studied for their correlation with prescribing patterns in peer-reviewed journals such as JAMA Internal Medicine.

Recipient concentration is another useful lens. The top 5 recipients of payments from BAXTER HEALTHCARE received $0.00 combined — 0.0% of the company's total — with the remaining 100.0% distributed across the rest of the 26,085 recipients. A relatively distributed top-5 share suggests broader engagement across the prescriber community rather than concentration among a handful of high-value relationships. All figures above are drawn directly from the CMS Open Payments Public Use Files for PY2024 and are disclosed under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act; this page summarizes reported financial transfers and does not represent medical advice or judgment about individual prescribing decisions.