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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Cochlear Americas
Cochlear Americas reported $2,819,601.44 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 1,888 physicians and teaching hospitals across 2,190 transactions.
- $2.8M Top quartile payer
- All-tracks total
- 2,190 Top quartile volume
- Transactions
- 1,888 Top quartile reach
- Recipients
- +$221.5K
- General Payments vs PY2023
Cochlear Americas reported $2,819,601.44 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 1,888 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #376 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $568,546.04, averaging $1.5K per recipient.
How Cochlear Americas's $2.8M all-tracks total breaks down
Cochlear Americas'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
44/100
Total payments
F
36/100
Transaction volume
F
26/100
Physician reach
F
24/100
Payment type diversity
A
90/100
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CMS Sunshine Act warrant
Manufacturer cochlear-americas Cochlear Americas
$2.8M · #376/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024
- TOT $2.8M
- RANK #376
- SHARE 0.0%
- TXN 2,190
- RCP 1,888
- CAT 7
- GEN $568.5K
- ΔGEN +$221.5K
- TOP1 18.7%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Philadelphia Medical Management Company LLC ($2.8M)
Cochlear Americas 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
Cochlear Americas's CMS-reported General Payments increased by $221.5K (+63.8%) 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: COCHLEAR AMERICASPY2023: COCHLEAR AMERICASPY2024: Cochlear Americas. 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
- $347,035.93
- PY2024
- $568,546.04
What the Data Shows for Cochlear Americas
The all-tracks total above combines three CMS reporting categories - General Payments, Research Payments, and Ownership/Investment interests - not one undifferentiated figure. For Cochlear Americas, 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 publishes each Program Year's data roughly 12 months after the reporting period ends, so this reflects the most recently released cycle; see our methodology for how the tracks are standardized and compared across companies.
53 transactions worth $246.8K make "Consulting Fee" the top general-payment category in the 7-category breakdown below, 43.4% of General Payments (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately).
General Payment Breakdown by Type
"Consulting Fee" leads Cochlear Americas's 7-category general-payment breakdown at $246.8K, 43.4% of the reported total.
Cochlear Americas reports 7 general-payment categories - the top three are Consulting Fee (43.4%), Debt Forgiveness (16.2%), and Food and Beverage (15.9%). The remaining 4 categories make up 24.5% of this company's reported general-payment total. That multi-category mix is the kind of profile single-category reporters cannot show.
How Cochlear Americas divides its payments
General-payment categories, ordered by reported total
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consulting Fee | $246.8K | 53 | 43.4% |
| Debt Forgiveness | $92.0K | 73 | 16.2% |
| Food and Beverage | $90.3K | 1,445 | 15.9% |
| Travel and Lodging | $65.6K | 234 | 11.5% |
| Long-Term Medical Supply or Device Loan | $30.8K | 73 | 5.4% |
| Charitable Contribution | $22.0K | 9 | 3.9% |
| Space Rental or Facility Fees | $21.0K | 1 | 3.7% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $234,037.51 (41.2%) of $568,546.04 in this company's General Payments records across 804 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 Cochlear Americas
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Daniel Zeitler
$106,522.88 across 37 reported transactions
- 2
Salt Lake Regional Medical Center
$54,925.59 across 5 reported transactions
- 3
Our Lady Of The Lake Rmc
$28,802.12 across 2 reported transactions
- 4
Craig Buchman
$22,786.92 across 27 reported transactions
- 5
Lehigh Valley
$21,000.00 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
Cochlear Americas ranks #376 of 1,925 by total payments (top 20% by spend) but spreads that money notably more broadly than its spend rank alone would suggest -- #1,255 of 1,838 by HHI (bottom 32% least concentrated), a wider distribution than most similarly sized payers.
View all 12 companies in this HHI neighborhood as a list
- LifeNet Health : $410.9K total payments, HHI 564
- Mindray DS USA, Inc. : $209.1K total payments, HHI 557
- Novartis Pharma AG : $161.9K total payments, HHI 557
- Trimed, Inc. : $1.0M total payments, HHI 556
- Upsher-Smith Laboratories LLC : $19.0K total payments, HHI 555
- Monaghan Medical Corporation : $16.0K total payments, HHI 555
- Cochlear Americas (this company) : $568.5K total payments, HHI 553
- Eitan Medical North America, Inc. : $1.6K total payments, HHI 552
- Henry Schein Puerto Rico, Inc. : $2.6K total payments, HHI 552
- iotaMotion, Inc. : $37.4K total payments, HHI 552
- Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc. : $511.3K total payments, HHI 551
- DENTSPLY IH Inc. : $389.9K total payments, HHI 550
Similarly Concentrated Companies
Companies whose General Payments are spread across recipients about as (un)evenly as Cochlear Americas'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 Cochlear Americas.
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Put this to use
Cochlear Americas ranks #376 of 1,925 by all-tracks total payments, led by "Consulting Fee".
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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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