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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Community Blood Center
Community Blood Center reported $72,452.91 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 65 physicians and teaching hospitals across 65 transactions.
- $72.5K Below-median payer
- All-tracks total
- 65 Below-median volume
- Transactions
- 65 Below-median reach
- Recipients
- #1264
- of 1,925 companies
Community Blood Center reported $72,452.91 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 65 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #1264 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $72,452.91, averaging $1.1K per recipient.
Community Blood Center'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
27/100
Total payments
F
11/100
Transaction volume
F
10/100
Physician reach
F
10/100
Payment type diversity
C
77/100
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.
CMS Sunshine Act warrant
Manufacturer community-blood-center Community Blood Center
$72.5K · #1264/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024
- TOT $72.5K
- RANK #1264
- SHARE 0.0%
- TXN 65
- RCP 65
- CAT 6
- GEN $72.5K
- TOP1 14.7%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Merete Technologies, Inc ($72.1K)
Community Blood Center 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 Community Blood Center
CMS Open Payments is not a single ledger: the all-tracks total shown above is General Payments plus Research Payments plus Ownership/Investment interests, each with its own disclosure rules. For Community Blood Center that figure is drawn almost entirely from the General Payments track (day-to-day consulting, meals, travel and speaking fees). Data for a given Program Year arrives roughly a year after the period it covers; our methodology page documents the release cadence and how we standardize the tracks for cross-company comparison.
"Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting" leads the 6-category general-payment breakdown below at $18.0K (24.8% of General Payments, 13 transactions) - see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately.
General Payment Breakdown by Type
"Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting" leads Community Blood Center's 6-category general-payment breakdown at $18.0K, 24.8% of the reported total.
Community Blood Center reports 6 general-payment categories - the top three are Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting (24.8%), Education (23.9%), and Travel and Lodging (20.2%). The remaining 3 categories make up 31.1% of this company's reported general-payment total. That multi-category mix is the kind of profile single-category reporters cannot show.
How Community Blood Center divides its payments
General-payment categories, ordered by reported total
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting | $18.0K | 13 | 24.8% |
| Education | $17.3K | 9 | 23.9% |
| Travel and Lodging | $14.6K | 16 | 20.2% |
| Honoraria | $11.0K | 5 | 15.2% |
| Consulting Fee | $10.0K | 4 | 13.8% |
| Food and Beverage | $1.5K | 18 | 2.1% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $37,997.96 (52.4%) of $72,452.91 in this company's General Payments records across 32 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 Community Blood Center
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Curry Leavitt
$10,622.93 across 4 reported transactions
- 2
Michael Sonick
$9,361.46 across 8 reported transactions
- 3
Israel Puterman
$6,997.24 across 3 reported transactions
- 4
Andrea Dunkelman
$6,516.33 across 6 reported transactions
- 5
Matthew Fien
$4,500.00 across 2 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
Community Blood Center's spend rank (#1264 of 1,925, bottom 34% by spend) and concentration rank (#1,119 of 1,838, bottom 39% least concentrated) land at roughly the same percentile, an unusually proportionate case where payment size and payment concentration move together.
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Companies whose General Payments are spread across recipients about as (un)evenly as Community Blood Center'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 Community Blood Center.
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Put this to use
Community Blood Center ranks #1264 of 1,925 by all-tracks total payments, led by "Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting".
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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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