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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024

Karl Storz Imaging, Inc.

Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. reported $852.50 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 2 physicians and teaching hospitals across 2 transactions.

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$852.50 Below-median payer
All-tracks total
2 Below-median volume
Transactions
2 Below-median reach
Recipients
#1850
of 1,925 companies

Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. reported $852.50 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 2 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #1850 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $852.50, averaging $426.25 per recipient.

Karl Storz Imaging, Inc.'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.

Compiled from official public sources by the publisher.

CMS Sunshine Act warrant

Manufacturer karl-storz-imaging-inc Karl Storz Imaging, Inc.

$852.50 · #1850/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024

  • TOT $852.50
  • RANK #1850
  • SHARE 0.0%
  • TXN 2
  • RCP 2
  • CAT 1
  • GEN $852.50
  • TOP1 58.7%
  • PY 2024

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: LockedBrands ($852.39)

Elekta LTD$857.01Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. (th…$852.50LockedBrands$852.39McKesson Medical-Surgical Mi…$837.57Nuo Therapeutics$833.09
All-tracks payment totals near Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. (CMS Open Payments PY2024)

Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. 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 Karl Storz Imaging, Inc.

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 Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. 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.

The 1-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 $852.50, accounting for 100.0% of this company's General Payments and 2 transactions.

General Payment Breakdown by Type

Across 1 types of general payments, Karl Storz Imaging, Inc.'s largest category was "Consulting Fee" at $852.50 - 100.0% of General Payments.

How Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. divides its payments

Ranked by total dollars reported per category

1. Consulting Fee$852.50
Payment Type Amount Transactions
Consulting Fee $852.50 2

Recipient Concentration in General Payments

The five largest recipient relationships account for $852.50 (100.0%) of $852.50 in this company's General Payments records across 2 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 Karl Storz Imaging, Inc.

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

Seth Bechis$500.00Ilya Sobol$352.50
  1. 1

    Seth Bechis

    $500.00 across 1 reported transactions

  2. 2

    Ilya Sobol

    $352.50 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

Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. ranks #1850 of 1,925 by total payments (bottom 4% by spend) but is notably more concentrated than that alone would suggest -- #338 of 1,838 by HHI (top 18% most concentrated). Its payments land on an unusually narrow set of recipients for its spend size.

00.00.00.00.15097.35123.45149.55175.65201.8Total payments ($M)Concentration (HHI, 0-10,000)
Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. (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 Karl Storz Imaging, Inc.'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 Karl Storz Imaging, Inc..

Iridex Corporation

HHI 5149

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HHI 5153

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HHI 5160

Omega Medical Imaging, LLC

HHI 5180

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Put this to use

Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. ranks #1850 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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