Company: BSX
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000885725-25-000017
Chunk: 124

Company: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 124
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 financial measures are considered by management, please see Annex A to this Proxy Statement.

#### 1042025 Proxy Statement
| Proposal 2:                                                               
 Advisory Vote to Approve the Compensation of our Named Executive Officers |

| Our Board of Directors unanimously recommends that you vote“FOR”the approval of the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in this Proxy Statement pursuant to Item 402 of Regulation S-K. 
 Vote Required: Majority of votes cast                                                                                                                                                                         |

#### Summary
Section 14A of the Exchange Act requires that we provide our stockholders with the opportunity to vote to approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation of the NEOs (the “say-on-pay” advisory vote) as disclosed in this Proxy Statement in accordance with the compensation disclosure rules of the SEC. At our 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, a majority of our stockholders voted, on a non-binding, advisory basis, to hold the “say-on-pay” advisory vote every year, and our Board subsequently determined that the Company will do so until the next required vote on the frequency of such “say-on-pay” advisory vote occurs at the 2029 annual meeting of stockholders. We expect the next “say-on-pay” advisory vote to be held at our 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

As described in the Compensation Discussion & Analysis section of this Proxy Statement, our executive compensation philosophy is to provide appropriate, competitive compensation opportunities to our executives with actual pay outcomes heavily influenced by the achievement of Company performance targets and individual performance objectives (in other words, “pay for performance”) in support of our business strategy and creation of long-term stockholder value.

#### Executive Compensation Program Best Practices
Our Compensation Committee believes a strong foundation for our compensation program is necessary to execute our executive compensation philosophy effectively. The following key aspects of executive compensation best practices serve as the foundation for our compensation program:

| What We Do |

| Use mix of short- and long-term incentive compensation, and emphasize long-term.                                                                                                                                                                                       
 Use mix of fixed and variable compensation, and emphasize variable, at-risk performance-based compensation.                                                                                                                                                            
 Employ a “double-trigger” (both a change in control and termination without cause or resignation for good reason) for cash payments and accelerated vesting of equity awards where the surviving or acquiring entity substitutes or assumes outstanding equity awards. 
 Maintain stock ownership guidelines for executives and directors.                                                                                                                                                                                                      |     | Have policies for the recovery (“clawback”) of all or a portion of certain incentive compensation awards under certain circumstances.