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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Cochlear Ltd
Cochlear Ltd reported $10,145.22 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 6 physicians and teaching hospitals across 6 transactions.
- $10.1K Below-median payer
- All-tracks total
- 6 Below-median volume
- Transactions
- 6 Below-median reach
- Recipients
- +$10.0K
- General Payments vs PY2023
Cochlear Ltd reported $10,145.22 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 6 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #1639 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $10,145.22, averaging $1.7K per recipient.
Cochlear Ltd'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
17/100
Total payments
F
10/100
Transaction volume
F
10/100
Physician reach
F
10/100
Payment type diversity
F
37/100
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CMS Sunshine Act warrant
Manufacturer cochlear-ltd Cochlear Ltd
$10.1K · #1639/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024
- TOT $10.1K
- RANK #1639
- SHARE 0.0%
- TXN 6
- RCP 6
- CAT 3
- GEN $10.1K
- ΔGEN +$10.0K
- TOP1 59.5%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Current Health Inc. ($10.2K)
Cochlear Ltd 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 Ltd's CMS-reported General Payments increased by $10.0K (+10467.9%) 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: COCHLEAR LTDPY2023: COCHLEAR LTDPY2024: Cochlear Ltd. 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
- $96.00
- PY2024
- $10,145.22
What the Data Shows for Cochlear Ltd
The all-tracks total above combines three CMS reporting categories - General Payments, Research Payments, and Ownership/Investment interests - not one undifferentiated figure. For Cochlear Ltd that figure is drawn almost entirely from the General Payments track (day-to-day consulting, meals, travel and speaking fees). 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.
"Travel and Lodging" leads the 3-category general-payment breakdown below at $8.5K (83.5% of General Payments, 3 transactions) - see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately.
General Payment Breakdown by Type
Cochlear Ltd made 3 types of general payments. "Travel and Lodging" is the largest category at $8.5K, 83.5% of General Payments.
How Cochlear Ltd divides its payments
How the reported total splits across payment categories
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Travel and Lodging | $8.5K | 3 | 83.5% |
| Consulting Fee | $1.6K | 2 | 15.8% |
| Food and Beverage | $76.94 | 1 | 0.8% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $10,145.22 (100.0%) of $10,145.22 in this company's General Payments records across 4 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 Ltd
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Douglas Backous
$6,032.47 across 3 reported transactions
- 2
Jacques Herzog
$2,512.75 across 1 reported transactions
- 3
Nicholas Deep
$800.00 across 1 reported transactions
- 4
Tiffany Hwa
$800.00 across 1 reported transactions
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Spend vs. Concentration
Cochlear Ltd ranks #1639 of 1,925 by total payments (bottom 15% by spend) but is notably more concentrated than that alone would suggest -- #431 of 1,838 by HHI (top 23% most concentrated). Its payments land on an unusually narrow set of recipients for its spend size.
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- Consortium of Independent Immunology Clinics, LLC : $225.3K total payments, HHI 4285
- Evolved By Nature, Inc. : $239.3K total payments, HHI 4275
- Cochlear Ltd (this company) : $10.1K total payments, HHI 4273
- Change Healthcare Technologies, LLC : $89.9K total payments, HHI 4271
- Owens & Minor Distribution, Inc. : $316.70 total payments, HHI 4269
- Nucletron Operations B.V. : $108.4K total payments, HHI 4229
- Signature Orthopaedics USA Corp : $42.1K total payments, HHI 4228
- Clariance SAS : $73.8K total payments, HHI 4220
Similarly Concentrated Companies
Companies whose General Payments are spread across recipients about as (un)evenly as Cochlear Ltd'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 Ltd.
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Put this to use
Cochlear Ltd ranks #1639 of 1,925 by all-tracks total payments, led by "Travel and Lodging".
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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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