Company: BSX
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000885725-25-000017
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Company: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: DEF 14A
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 period is determined based on the following formula:

<div align='center'>(Change in Stock Price + Dividends Paid) / Beginning Stock Price</div>

The change in stock price is determined by subtracting the beginning stock price (the daily average closing price of one share of common stock for the two calendar months prior to the beginning of the performance period) from the ending stock price (the daily average closing price of one share of common stock for the last two calendar months of the performance period). The dividends paid are the total of all cash dividends paid on one share of common stock during the performance period.

Following the calculation of the TSR for the three-year performance period for our Company and each of the other companies in the S&P 500 Health Care Index, the companies will be ranked in order of maximum to minimum TSRs for the full three-year performance period. Our percentile performance will be determined by (i) dividing (a) our

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#### Executive Compensation
ranking versus that of the other companies in the S&P 500 Health Care Index minus one, by (b) the total number of companies in the S&P 500 Health Care Index minus one, and (ii) subtracting the result from one.

#### Service Criteria
Generally under the 2024 rTSR PSP, except with respect to termination of employment due to retirement, death or disability, or in connection with a change in control, in each case, as described in the 2024 rTSR PSP and the 2011 LTIP, a participant must be employed with us on December 31, 2026 to be eligible to receive shares of our common stock in respect of his or her rTSR performance-based RSUs as to which the performance criteria under the program have been satisfied.

For information regarding potential payments upon certain terminations of employment or in connection with a change in control, please see Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control on page 86 .

2024 Organic Net Sales Growth Performance Share Program

Our 2024 ONSG PSP is administered under our 2011 LTIP, as effective at the time of grant of performance-based RSUs under the program. The 2024 grants of ONSG performance-based RSUs vest upon the satisfaction of both the Company performance criteria and service criteria under the 2024 ONSG PSP, subject to acceleration in the event of certain qualifying terminations discussed in Potential Payments Under Termination or Change in Control on page 86 . Our executives,