Company: BSX
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000885725-25-000017
Chunk: 127

Company: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: DEF 14A
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 and discussions referred to above, the Audit Committee recommended to the Board that the audited financial statements be included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, which has been filed with the SEC. The Audit Committee has also approved the selection of Ernst & Young as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2025.

This Audit Committee Report does not constitute soliciting material and should not be deemed filed or incorporated by reference into any other filing of the Company with the SEC, except to the extent that the Company specifically incorporates this Report by reference into another Company filing.

THE AUDIT COMMITTEE

David S. Wichmann, Chair Charles J. Dockendorff
David C. Habiger

#### Susan E. Morano
John E. Sununu

#### 2025 Proxy Statement107
| Proposal 3:                                                                      
 Ratification of Appointment of our Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |

| Our Board unanimously recommends that you vote“FOR”the Ratification of the Appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the 2025 Fiscal Year. 
 Vote Required: Majority of votes cast                                                                                                                                                      |

The Audit Committee of the Board has appointed Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the 2025 fiscal year. The Audit Committee is directly responsible for approving the appointment, retention and compensation, and for the oversight of the work of our independent registered public accounting firm (including resolution of disagreements between management and the independent registered public accounting firm regarding financial reporting) for the purpose of preparing or issuing an audit report or related work. Ernst & Young LLP has been retained as the Company’s external auditor continuously since 1992.

The Audit Committee is responsible for audit fee negotiations associated with the Company’s retention of Ernst & Young LLP. In order to assure continuing auditor independence, the Audit Committee periodically considers whether there should be a regular rotation of the independent external audit firm. In conjunction with the mandated rotation of the Audit Firm’s lead engagement partner, the Audit Committee and its chair are directly involved in the selection of Ernst & Young LLP’s new lead engagement partner.

In making its determination regarding whether to appoint or retain a particular independent registered public accounting firm, the Audit Committee takes into account the views of management and our internal auditors, and will take into account the vote of our stockholders with respect to the ratification of the selection of our independent registered public accounting firm. The members of the Audit Committee and the Board believe that the continued retention of Ernst