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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024

Cook Research Incorporated

Cook Research Incorporated reported $1,490,771.64 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 55 physicians and teaching hospitals across 194 transactions.

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$1.5M Above-median payer
All-tracks total
194 Above-median volume
Transactions
55 Below-median reach
Recipients
−$29.8K
General Payments vs PY2023

Cook Research Incorporated reported $1,490,771.64 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 55 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #528 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $288,604.48, averaging $27.1K per recipient.

How Cook Research Incorporated's $1.5M all-tracks total breaks down

Cook Research Incorporated'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

24/100

Total payments

F

24/100

Transaction volume

F

11/100

Physician reach

F

10/100

Payment type diversity

D

50/100

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.

Compiled from official public sources by the publisher.

CMS Sunshine Act warrant

Manufacturer cook-research-incorporated Cook Research Incorporated

$1.5M · #528/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024

  • TOT $1.5M
  • RANK #528
  • SHARE 0.0%
  • TXN 194
  • RCP 55
  • CAT 4
  • GEN $288.6K
  • ΔGEN −$29.8K
  • TOP1 45.1%
  • PY 2024

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: CardioFocus, Inc. ($1.5M)

Artivion, Inc.$1.5MCardioFocus, Inc.$1.5MCook Research Incorporated (…$1.5MAdaptive Biotechnologies Cor…$1.5MServier Pharmaceuticals LLC$1.5M
All-tracks payment totals near Cook Research Incorporated (CMS Open Payments PY2024)

Cook Research Incorporated 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

Cook Research Incorporated's CMS-reported General Payments decreased by $29.8K (−9.4%) 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: COOK RESEARCH INCORPORATEDPY2023: COOK RESEARCH INCORPORATEDPY2024: Cook Research Incorporated. 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$318.5KPY2024$288.6K
PY2023
$318,452.92
PY2024
$288,604.48

What the Data Shows for Cook Research Incorporated

The all-tracks total above combines three CMS reporting categories - General Payments, Research Payments, and Ownership/Investment interests - not one undifferentiated figure. For Cook Research Incorporated, 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.

The 4-category breakdown below covers general payments only (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately). The largest general-payment category is "Consulting Fee" at $286.2K, accounting for 99.2% of this company's General Payments and 38 transactions.

General Payment Breakdown by Type

Cook Research Incorporated made 4 types of general payments. "Consulting Fee" is the largest category at $286.2K, 99.2% of General Payments.

Cook Research Incorporated reports 4 general-payment categories - the top three are Consulting Fee (99.2%), Travel and Lodging (0.6%), and Space Rental or Facility Fees (0.2%). The remaining 1 category make up 0.0% of this company's reported general-payment total. That multi-category mix is the kind of profile single-category reporters cannot show.

How Cook Research Incorporated divides its payments

General-payment categories, ordered by reported total

1. Consulting Fee$286.2K2. Travel and Lodging$1.8K3. Space Rental or Facility …$600.004. Food and Beverage$65.08
Payment Type Amount Transactions
Consulting Fee $286.2K 38
Travel and Lodging $1.8K 14
Space Rental or Facility Fees $600.00 1
Food and Beverage $65.08 2

Recipient Concentration in General Payments

The five largest recipient relationships account for $281,366.68 (97.5%) of $288,604.48 in this company's General Payments records across 11 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 Cook Research Incorporated

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

Paul E Timperman$130.3KNabeel R Rana$80.8KCarlos I Mena-Hurtado$37.5KVincent Flanders$24.3KPaul J Gagne$8.5K
  1. 1

    Paul E Timperman

    $130,291.68 across 13 reported transactions

  2. 2

    Nabeel R Rana

    $80,820.00 across 15 reported transactions

  3. 3

    Carlos I Mena-Hurtado

    $37,500.00 across 1 reported transactions

  4. 4

    Vincent Flanders

    $24,255.00 across 18 reported transactions

  5. 5

    Paul J Gagne

    $8,500.00 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

Cook Research Incorporated's spend rank (#528 of 1,925, top 27% by spend) and concentration rank (#557 of 1,838, top 30% most concentrated) land at roughly the same percentile, an unusually proportionate case where payment size and payment concentration move together.

02.14.26.38.43041.83070.430993127.63156.2Total payments ($M)Concentration (HHI, 0-10,000)
Cook Research Incorporated (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 Cook Research Incorporated'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 Cook Research Incorporated.

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HHI 3070

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HHI 3085

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HHI 3056

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HHI 3056

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Put this to use

Cook Research Incorporated ranks #528 of 1,925 by all-tracks total payments, led by "Consulting Fee".

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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