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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024

Synthes GmbH

Synthes GmbH reported $2,454,298.25 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 2,666 physicians and teaching hospitals across 2,666 transactions.

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$2.5M
All-tracks total
2,666
Transactions
2,666
Recipients
−$346.7K
General Payments vs PY2023

Synthes GmbH reported $2,454,298.25 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 2,666 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #407 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $2,454,298.25, averaging $920.59 per recipient.

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 synthes-gmbh Synthes GmbH

$2.5M · #407/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024

  • TOT $2.5M
  • RANK #407
  • SHARE 0.0%
  • TXN 2,666
  • RCP 2,666
  • CAT 4
  • GEN $2.5M
  • ΔGEN −$346.7K
  • TOP1 7.1%
  • PY 2024

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: AstraZeneca AB ($2.5M)

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., L…$2.5MSynthes GmbH (this)$2.5MAstraZeneca AB$2.5MSaluda Medical Americas, Inc.$2.4MDePuy Synthes Sales Inc.$2.4M
All-tracks payment totals near Synthes GmbH (CMS Open Payments PY2024)

Synthes GmbH 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

Synthes GmbH's CMS-reported General Payments decreased by $346.7K (−12.4%) 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: SYNTHES GMBHPY2023: SYNTHES GMBHPY2024: Synthes GmbH. 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$2.8MPY2024$2.5M
PY2023
$2,801,022.65
PY2024
$2,454,298.25

What the Data Shows for Synthes GmbH

Averaging $920.59 per transaction and $920.59 per recipient, Synthes GmbH's Program Year 2024 total comes to $2,454,298.25 across 2,666 transactions and 2,666 physicians and teaching hospitals. In the CMS Open Payments database that is good for rank #407 of 1,925 companies, a comparatively small 0.0% slice of all industry payments reported nationwide for the year.

680 transactions worth $944.1K make "Compensation for Faculty or Speaker (Medical Education)" the top general-payment category in the 4-category breakdown below, 38.5% of General Payments (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately).

General Payment Breakdown by Type

Across 4 types of general payments, Synthes GmbH's largest category was "Compensation for Faculty or Speaker (Medical Education)" at $944.1K - 38.5% of General Payments.

Synthes GmbH reports 4 general-payment categories - the top three are Compensation for Faculty or Speaker (Medical Education) (38.5%), Travel and Lodging (34.3%), and Grant (25.2%). The remaining 1 category make up 2.0% of this company's reported general-payment total. That multi-category mix is the kind of profile single-category reporters cannot show.

How Synthes GmbH divides its payments

General-payment categories, ordered by reported total

1. Compensation for Faculty …$944.1K2. Travel and Lodging$841.6K3. Grant$619.0K4. Food and Beverage$49.7K
Payment Type Amount Transactions
Compensation for Faculty or Speaker (Medical Education) $944.1K 680
Travel and Lodging $841.6K 1,564
Grant $619.0K 52
Food and Beverage $49.7K 370

Recipient Concentration in General Payments

The five largest recipient relationships account for $386,539.95 (15.7%) of $2,454,298.25 in this company's General Payments records across 596 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 Synthes GmbH

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

University Of Washington Med…$173.0KUniversity Of Alabama Hospit…$74.5KU Of U Hospitals & Clinics$52.5KRush University Medical Cent…$43.5KCedars-Sinai Medical Center$43.0K
  1. 1

    University Of Washington Med Ctr

    $173,039.95 across 15 reported transactions

  2. 2

    University Of Alabama Hospital

    $74,500.00 across 8 reported transactions

  3. 3

    U Of U Hospitals & Clinics

    $52,500.00 across 3 reported transactions

  4. 4

    Rush University Medical Center

    $43,500.00 across 2 reported transactions

  5. 5

    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

    $43,000.00 across 3 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 Synthes GmbH.

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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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