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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
bluebird bio, Inc.
bluebird bio, Inc. reported $4,480,900.59 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 229 physicians and teaching hospitals across 377 transactions.
- $4.5M Top quartile payer
- All-tracks total
- 377 Above-median volume
- Transactions
- 229 Above-median reach
- Recipients
- −$56.0K
- General Payments vs PY2023
bluebird bio, Inc. reported $4,480,900.59 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 229 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #290 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $208,301.23, averaging $19.6K per recipient.
How bluebird bio, Inc.'s $4.5M all-tracks total breaks down
bluebird bio, Inc.'s payment reach score
Each tracked dimension is percentile-scored against the national companies corpus, then averaged across only the dimensions that apply to this company, a neutral scale measure of reporting activity, not a rating of quality, safety, or ethics.
Overall reach score
F
32/100
Total payments
D
51/100
Transaction volume
F
13/100
Physician reach
F
12/100
Payment type diversity
D
50/100
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CMS Sunshine Act warrant
Manufacturer bluebird-bio-inc bluebird bio, Inc.
$4.5M · #290/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024
- TOT $4.5M
- RANK #290
- SHARE 0.0%
- TXN 377
- RCP 229
- CAT 4
- GEN $208.3K
- ΔGEN −$56.0K
- TOP1 33.5%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Novocure Inc. ($4.5M)
bluebird bio, Inc. 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
bluebird bio, Inc.'s CMS-reported General Payments decreased by $56.0K (−21.2%) 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: PY2023: GENETIX BIOTHERAPEUTICS INCPY2024: bluebird bio, Inc.. 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
- $264,287.03
- PY2024
- $208,301.23
What the Data Shows for bluebird bio, Inc.
Three separate CMS disclosure tracks feed the all-tracks total above - General, Research, and Ownership/Investment - each reported under its own rules and combined here for one comparable figure. For bluebird bio, Inc., that total blends General Payments (day-to-day consulting, meals, travel and speaking fees, shown separately above) with Research and Ownership/Investment interest records, each governed by its own CMS reporting rules. CMS releases each Program Year roughly 12 months after it ends; the methodology page covers the full standardization basis.
37 transactions worth $109.1K make "Consulting Fee" the top general-payment category in the 4-category breakdown below, 52.4% of General Payments (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately).
General Payment Breakdown by Type
Across 4 types of general payments, bluebird bio, Inc.'s largest category was "Consulting Fee" at $109.1K - 52.4% of General Payments.
bluebird bio, Inc. reports 4 general-payment categories - the top three are Consulting Fee (52.4%), Grant (26.9%), and Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting (15.6%). The remaining 1 category make up 5.1% of this company's reported general-payment total. That multi-category mix is the kind of profile single-category reporters cannot show.
How bluebird bio, Inc. divides its payments
How the reported total splits across payment categories
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consulting Fee | $109.1K | 37 | 52.4% |
| Grant | $56.0K | 4 | 26.9% |
| Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting | $32.5K | 2 | 15.6% |
| Food and Beverage | $10.7K | 186 | 5.1% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $166,252.50 (79.8%) of $208,301.23 in this company's General Payments records across 154 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 bluebird bio, Inc.
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Andrew Dietz
$69,750.00 across 9 reported transactions
- 2
John O Agwunobi
$32,500.00 across 2 reported transactions
- 3
University Of Virginia Medical Cente
$29,000.00 across 2 reported transactions
- 4
Massachusetts General Hospital
$25,000.00 across 1 reported transactions
- 5
Daniel Loes
$10,002.50 across 8 reported transactions
Compare this company's payment profile with similarly sized manufacturers in the company comparison tool, and consult the methodology for the CMS source scope.
Spend vs. Concentration
bluebird bio, Inc. ranks #290 of 1,925 by total payments (top 15% by spend) but spreads that money notably more broadly than its spend rank alone would suggest -- #800 of 1,838 by HHI (top 44% most concentrated), a wider distribution than most similarly sized payers.
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- Citieffe, Inc. : $145.4K total payments, HHI 1775
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- Cerus Corporation : $405.7K total payments, HHI 1771
- Brixton Biosciences, Inc. : $36.4K total payments, HHI 1756
- Sysmex America, Inc. : $54.4K total payments, HHI 1755
- bluebird bio, Inc. (this company) : $208.3K total payments, HHI 1750
- Pfizer International LLC : $197.5K total payments, HHI 1747
- NextStep Arthropedix, LLC : $125.7K total payments, HHI 1747
- Greiner Bio-One North America, Inc. : $11.6K total payments, HHI 1746
- CashFlow Solutions, LLC : $89.2K total payments, HHI 1745
- Acumed LLC : $3.4M total payments, HHI 1742
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Companies whose General Payments are spread across recipients about as (un)evenly as bluebird bio, Inc.'s, measured by the same HHI concentration index above, not by payment size.
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 bluebird bio, Inc..
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Put this to use
bluebird bio, Inc. ranks #290 of 1,925 by all-tracks total payments, led by "Consulting Fee".
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Reported payments reflect what companies disclosed to CMS; a payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.
Data sourced from CMS Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act). See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPharmaWatch
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