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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Vivus LLC
Vivus LLC reported $245,506.26 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 3,639 physicians and teaching hospitals across 3,640 transactions.
- $245.5K Above-median payer
- All-tracks total
- 3,640 Top quartile volume
- Transactions
- 3,639 Top quartile reach
- Recipients
- −$479.3K
- General Payments vs PY2023
Vivus LLC reported $245,506.26 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 3,639 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #946 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $184,363.78, averaging $67.47 per recipient.
How Vivus LLC's $245.5K all-tracks total breaks down
Vivus 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
34/100
Total payments
F
12/100
Transaction volume
F
36/100
Physician reach
F
38/100
Payment type diversity
D
50/100
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CMS Sunshine Act warrant
Manufacturer vivus-llc Vivus LLC
$245.5K · #946/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024
- TOT $245.5K
- RANK #946
- SHARE 0.0%
- TXN 3,640
- RCP 3,639
- CAT 4
- GEN $184.4K
- ΔGEN −$479.3K
- TOP1 28.3%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. ($245.5K)
Vivus 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
Vivus LLC's CMS-reported General Payments decreased by $479.3K (−72.2%) 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: VIVUS LLCPY2023: VIVUS LLCPY2024: VIVUS 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
- $663,631.36
- PY2024
- $184,363.78
What the Data Shows for Vivus LLC
The all-tracks total above combines three CMS reporting categories - General Payments, Research Payments, and Ownership/Investment interests - not one undifferentiated figure. For Vivus 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.
34 transactions worth $80.3K make "Consulting Fee" the top general-payment category in the 4-category breakdown below, 43.5% 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, Vivus LLC's largest category was "Consulting Fee" at $80.3K - 43.5% of General Payments.
Vivus LLC reports 4 general-payment categories - the top three are Consulting Fee (43.5%), Food and Beverage (42.2%), and Travel and Lodging (13.2%). The remaining 1 category make up 1.1% of this company's reported general-payment total. That multi-category mix is the kind of profile single-category reporters cannot show.
How Vivus LLC divides its payments
Ranked by total dollars reported per category
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consulting Fee | $80.3K | 34 | 43.5% |
| Food and Beverage | $77.8K | 3,596 | 42.2% |
| Travel and Lodging | $24.3K | 8 | 13.2% |
| Charitable Contribution | $2.0K | 1 | 1.1% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $92,798.11 (50.3%) of $184,363.78 in this company's General Payments records across 2,142 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 Vivus LLC
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Anthony Auriemma
$52,109.84 across 18 reported transactions
- 2
Andres Acosta Cardenas
$21,848.69 across 9 reported transactions
- 3
Marina Kurian
$7,353.59 across 5 reported transactions
- 4
Cynthia Rudert
$6,396.23 across 9 reported transactions
- 5
Suzanne E Cuda
$5,089.76 across 3 reported transactions
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Spend vs. Concentration
Vivus LLC's spend rank (#946 of 1,925, top 49% by spend) and concentration rank (#1,035 of 1,838, bottom 44% least concentrated) land at roughly the same percentile, an unusually proportionate case where payment size and payment concentration move together.
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- Vivus LLC (this company) : $184.4K total payments, HHI 986
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Companies whose General Payments are spread across recipients about as (un)evenly as Vivus 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 Vivus LLC.
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Put this to use
Vivus LLC ranks #946 of 1,925 by all-tracks total payments, led by "Consulting Fee".
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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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