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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Merck Healthcare KGaA
Merck Healthcare KGaA reported $1,811,460.95 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 36 physicians and teaching hospitals across 459 transactions.
- $1.8M
- All-tracks total
- 459
- Transactions
- 36
- Recipients
- −$233.79
- General Payments vs PY2023
Merck Healthcare KGaA reported $1,811,460.95 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 36 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #474 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $85,391.21, averaging $50.3K per recipient.
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CMS Sunshine Act warrant
Manufacturer merck-healthcare-kgaa Merck Healthcare KGaA
$1.8M · #474/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024
- TOT $1.8M
- RANK #474
- SHARE 0.0%
- TXN 459
- RCP 36
- CAT 4
- GEN $85.4K
- ΔGEN −$233.79
- TOP1 27.5%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: A-dec, Inc. ($1.8M)
Merck Healthcare KGaA 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
Merck Healthcare KGaA's CMS-reported General Payments decreased by $233.79 (−0.3%) 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: PY2023: MERCK HEALTHCARE KGAAPY2024: Merck Healthcare KGaA. 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
- $85,625.00
- PY2024
- $85,391.21
What the Data Shows for Merck Healthcare KGaA
Averaging $3.9K per transaction and $50.3K per recipient, Merck Healthcare KGaA's Program Year 2024 total comes to $1,811,460.95 across 459 transactions and 36 physicians and teaching hospitals. In the CMS Open Payments database that is good for rank #474 of 1,925 companies, a comparatively small 0.0% slice of all industry payments reported nationwide for the year.
Of the 4 general-payment categories charted below, "Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting" is the largest at $30.3K across 5 transactions, 35.5% of this company's General Payments (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately).
General Payment Breakdown by Type
Merck Healthcare KGaA made 4 types of general payments. "Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting" is the largest category at $30.3K, 35.5% of General Payments.
Merck Healthcare KGaA reports 4 general-payment categories - the top three are Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting (35.5%), Travel and Lodging (32.3%), and Consulting Fee (31.6%). The remaining 1 category make up 0.6% of this company's reported general-payment total. That multi-category mix is the kind of profile single-category reporters cannot show.
How Merck Healthcare KGaA divides its payments
How the reported total splits across payment categories
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting | $30.3K | 5 | 35.5% |
| Travel and Lodging | $27.6K | 22 | 32.3% |
| Consulting Fee | $27.0K | 5 | 31.6% |
| Food and Beverage | $518.79 | 4 | 0.6% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $68,433.71 (80.1%) of $85,391.21 in this company's General Payments records across 12 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 Merck Healthcare KGaA
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Kurt Barnhart
$23,441.09 across 4 reported transactions
- 2
Leorah a Freeman
$16,313.79 across 5 reported transactions
- 3
Donald Negroski
$15,145.38 across 5 reported transactions
- 4
Ahmed Z Obeidat
$6,950.00 across 1 reported transactions
- 5
Barbara Ann Burtness
$6,583.45 across 6 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.
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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 Merck Healthcare KGaA.
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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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