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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC
Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC reported $585,892.95 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 1,270 physicians and teaching hospitals across 1,270 transactions.
- $585.9K Above-median payer
- All-tracks total
- 1,270 Above-median volume
- Transactions
- 1,270 Top quartile reach
- Recipients
- +$228.4K
- General Payments vs PY2023
Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC reported $585,892.95 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 1,270 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #727 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $585,892.95, averaging $461.33 per recipient.
How Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC's $585.9K all-tracks total breaks down
Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC'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
33/100
Total payments
F
15/100
Transaction volume
F
19/100
Physician reach
F
20/100
Payment type diversity
C
77/100
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CMS Sunshine Act warrant
Manufacturer solta-medical-a-division-of-bausch-health-us-llc Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC
$585.9K · #727/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024
- TOT $585.9K
- RANK #727
- SHARE 0.0%
- TXN 1,270
- RCP 1,270
- CAT 6
- GEN $585.9K
- ΔGEN +$228.4K
- TOP1 14.0%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Optos, Inc. ($585.3K)
Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC 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
Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC's CMS-reported General Payments increased by $228.4K (+63.9%) 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: SOLTA MEDICAL, A DIVISION OF BAUSCH HEALTH US, LLCPY2023: SOLTA MEDICAL, A DIVISION OF BAUSCH HEALTH US, LLCPY2024: Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC. 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
- $357,492.31
- PY2024
- $585,892.95
What the Data Shows for Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC
The all-tracks total above combines three CMS reporting categories - General Payments, Research Payments, and Ownership/Investment interests - not one undifferentiated figure. For Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC, 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.
Of the 6 general-payment categories charted below, "Consulting Fee" is the largest at $346.4K across 102 transactions, 59.1% of this company's General Payments (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately).
General Payment Breakdown by Type
Across 6 types of general payments, Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC's largest category was "Consulting Fee" at $346.4K - 59.1% of General Payments.
Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC reports 6 general-payment categories - the top three are Consulting Fee (59.1%), Travel and Lodging (17.6%), and Compensation for Faculty or Speaker (Medical Education) (16.4%). The remaining 3 categories make up 6.9% of this company's reported general-payment total. That multi-category mix is the kind of profile single-category reporters cannot show.
How Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC divides its payments
Top payment categories by total reported dollar volume
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consulting Fee | $346.4K | 102 | 59.1% |
| Travel and Lodging | $103.0K | 36 | 17.6% |
| Compensation for Faculty or Speaker (Medical Education) | $96.1K | 21 | 16.4% |
| Food and Beverage | $35.9K | 1,105 | 6.1% |
| Royalty or License | $2.8K | 4 | 0.5% |
| Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting | $1.8K | 2 | 0.3% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $283,219.91 (48.3%) of $585,892.95 in this company's General Payments records across 811 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 Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Matthew Nykiel
$82,279.49 across 31 reported transactions
- 2
Mark Jewell
$52,912.50 across 44 reported transactions
- 3
Sean Satey
$50,470.37 across 19 reported transactions
- 4
Nicole Lee
$50,267.41 across 34 reported transactions
- 5
Paul Vanek Jr.
$47,290.14 across 14 reported transactions
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Spend vs. Concentration
Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC ranks #727 of 1,925 by total payments (top 38% by spend) but spreads that money notably more broadly than its spend rank alone would suggest -- #1,246 of 1,838 by HHI (bottom 32% least concentrated), a wider distribution than most similarly sized payers.
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- Nexxt Spine LLC : $292.8K total payments, HHI 576
- Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC (this company) : $585.9K total payments, HHI 572
- Bisco, Inc. : $180.9K total payments, HHI 571
- Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics LLC : $51.0K total payments, HHI 569
- LifeNet Health : $410.9K total payments, HHI 564
- Mindray DS USA, Inc. : $209.1K total payments, HHI 557
- Novartis Pharma AG : $161.9K total payments, HHI 557
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Companies whose General Payments are spread across recipients about as (un)evenly as Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC'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 Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC.
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Put this to use
Solta Medical, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC ranks #727 of 1,925 by all-tracks total payments, led by "Consulting Fee".
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