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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024

Cascination AG

Cascination AG reported $694.27 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 22 physicians and teaching hospitals across 22 transactions.

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$694.27 Below-median payer
All-tracks total
22 Below-median volume
Transactions
22 Below-median reach
Recipients
#1864
of 1,925 companies

Cascination AG reported $694.27 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 22 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #1864 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $694.27, averaging $31.56 per recipient.

Cascination AG'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

10/100

Total payments

F

10/100

Transaction volume

F

10/100

Physician reach

F

10/100

Payment type diversity

F

10/100

Data currency: Figures are rendered from the processed CMS Open Payments release. See our methodology for source dates and refresh cadence. Spot a figure that looks wrong? Report a correction.

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CMS Sunshine Act warrant

Manufacturer cascination-ag Cascination AG

$694.27 · #1864/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024

  • TOT $694.27
  • RANK #1864
  • SHARE 0.0%
  • TXN 22
  • RCP 22
  • CAT 1
  • GEN $694.27
  • TOP1 5.6%
  • PY 2024

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Oculotix, Inc. ($700.00)

Atrility Medical, Inc.$712.50United Medical Systems (DE),…$704.50Movair Inc$701.79Oculotix, Inc.$700.00Cascination AG (this)$694.27
All-tracks payment totals near Cascination AG (CMS Open Payments PY2024)

Cascination AG 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 →

What the Data Shows for Cascination AG

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 Cascination AG that figure is drawn almost entirely from the General Payments track (day-to-day consulting, meals, travel and speaking fees). CMS releases each Program Year roughly 12 months after it ends; the methodology page covers the full standardization basis.

Of the 1 general-payment categories charted below, "Food and Beverage" is the largest at $694.27 across 22 transactions, 100.0% of this company's General Payments (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately).

General Payment Breakdown by Type

"Food and Beverage" leads Cascination AG's 1-category general-payment breakdown at $694.27, 100.0% of the reported total.

How Cascination AG divides its payments

Ranked by total dollars reported per category

1. Food and Beverage$694.27
Payment Type Amount Transactions
Food and Beverage $694.27 22

Recipient Concentration in General Payments

The five largest recipient relationships account for $193.90 (27.9%) of $694.27 in this company's General Payments records across 22 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 Cascination AG

The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company

Govindarajan Narayanan$38.78Brian Schiro$38.78Barry Katzen$38.78Andrew Niekamp$38.78Ripal Gandhi$38.78
  1. 1

    Govindarajan Narayanan

    $38.78 across 1 reported transactions

  2. 2

    Brian Schiro

    $38.78 across 1 reported transactions

  3. 3

    Barry Katzen

    $38.78 across 1 reported transactions

  4. 4

    Andrew Niekamp

    $38.78 across 1 reported transactions

  5. 5

    Ripal Gandhi

    $38.78 across 1 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

Cascination AG ranks #1864 of 1,925 by total payments (bottom 3% by spend) but is notably more concentrated than that alone would suggest -- #1,316 of 1,838 by HHI (bottom 28% least concentrated). Its payments land on an unusually narrow set of recipients for its spend size.

00.51.11.62.1456.4459.9463.5467.1470.6Total payments ($M)Concentration (HHI, 0-10,000)
Cascination AG (highlighted) among its 12 nearest HHI-concentration neighbors, Program Year 2024. Dashed lines mark this neighborhood's median payment total and median HHI. Hover a point for the company name. Source: company_concentration (CMS Open Payments general-payment recipients).
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Similarly Concentrated Companies

Companies whose General Payments are spread across recipients about as (un)evenly as Cascination AG'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 Cascination AG.

Carlsmed, Inc.

HHI 464

H. Lundbeck A S

HHI 465

Kite Pharma, Inc.

HHI 462

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HHI 461

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Put this to use

Cascination AG ranks #1864 of 1,925 by all-tracks total payments, led by "Food and Beverage".

Reported payments reflect what companies disclosed to CMS; a payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Data Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments, Program Year 2024. Data includes general payments, research payments, and physician ownership/investment interests as required by the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Total industry payments: $13.9B across 1,925 companies.

Data sourced from CMS Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act). See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPharmaWatch
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