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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024

Merge Healthcare Incorporated

Merge Healthcare Incorporated reported $6,861.28 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 135 physicians and teaching hospitals across 135 transactions.

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$6.9K
All-tracks total
135
Transactions
135
Recipients
−$6.4K
General Payments vs PY2023

Merge Healthcare Incorporated reported $6,861.28 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 135 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #1685 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $6,861.28, averaging $50.82 per recipient.

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CMS Sunshine Act warrant

Manufacturer merge-healthcare-incorporated Merge Healthcare Incorporated

$6.9K · #1685/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024

  • TOT $6.9K
  • RANK #1685
  • SHARE 0.0%
  • TXN 135
  • RCP 135
  • CAT 1
  • GEN $6.9K
  • ΔGEN −$6.4K
  • TOP1 10.3%
  • PY 2024

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: VisionRT, Inc. ($6.9K)

Atland Pharmaceuticals, LLC$7.0KNonin Medical, Inc.$7.0KSpirus Medical LLC$6.9KVisionRT, Inc.$6.9KMerge Healthcare Incorporate…$6.9K
All-tracks payment totals near Merge Healthcare Incorporated (CMS Open Payments PY2024)

Merge Healthcare 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

Merge Healthcare Incorporated's CMS-reported General Payments decreased by $6.4K (−48.3%) 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: PY2022: MERGE HEALTHCARE INCORPORATEDPY2023: MERGE HEALTHCARE INCORPORATEDPY2024: Merge Healthcare 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$13.3KPY2024$6.9K
PY2023
$13,259.04
PY2024
$6,861.28

What the Data Shows for Merge Healthcare Incorporated

$6,861.28: that is what Merge Healthcare Incorporated reported in payments to 135 physicians and teaching hospitals during Program Year 2024, spread across 135 transactions ($50.82 per transaction, $50.82 per recipient). The company sits at rank #1685 of 1,925, a comparatively small 0.0% slice of all industry payments reported nationwide for the year.

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 "Food and Beverage" at $6.9K, accounting for 100.0% of this company's General Payments and 135 transactions.

General Payment Breakdown by Type

Merge Healthcare Incorporated made 1 types of general payments. "Food and Beverage" is the largest category at $6.9K, 100.0% of General Payments.

How Merge Healthcare Incorporated divides its payments

General-payment categories, ordered by reported total

1. Food and Beverage$6.9K
Payment Type Amount Transactions
Food and Beverage $6.9K 135

Recipient Concentration in General Payments

The five largest recipient relationships account for $2,626.82 (38.3%) of $6,861.28 in this company's General Payments records across 33 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 Merge Healthcare Incorporated

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

Ascension Seton Medical Cent…$705.91Sky Lakes Medical Center$586.17Uhs Hospitals$493.06Marietta Memorial Hospital$428.95Alex Towbin$412.73
  1. 1

    Ascension Seton Medical Center

    $705.91 across 8 reported transactions

  2. 2

    Sky Lakes Medical Center

    $586.17 across 20 reported transactions

  3. 3

    Uhs Hospitals

    $493.06 across 13 reported transactions

  4. 4

    Marietta Memorial Hospital

    $428.95 across 9 reported transactions

  5. 5

    Alex Towbin

    $412.73 across 5 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 Merge Healthcare Incorporated.

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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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