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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 strong performance across key financial metrics, including those incorporated into our short- and long-term incentive compensation programs, described in further detail immediately below in this Proxy Statement.

#### Pay for Performance
Our short- and long-term incentive plans incorporate metrics designed to align with the objectives of driving profitable growth and rewarding Company and individual progress related to our strategic imperatives. Significant portions of pay pursuant to our executive compensation programs are tied to Company performance across a variety of key metrics, and ultimately, value delivered under these programs is closely aligned with stockholder value. Specifically, the metrics are linked to our strategic imperatives as set forth on the following page.

#### 2025 Proxy Statement45

### Compensation Discussion & Analysis
2024 Annual Bonus Plan:

Pursuant to our 2024 Annual Bonus Plan (ABP), a single company-wide Applicable Distribution Percentage, which is determined by the Company’s performance measured against Company financial metrics of Adjusted Net Sales, Adjusted Earnings Per Share (Adjusted EPS) and Adjusted Operating Income Margin (Adjusted OIM) (1) , each as calculated in accordance with the 2024 ABP, is utilized to determine the final payout for each applicable employee, including our executive officers. The Applicable Distribution Percentage may be further modified based on the Company’s performance against Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and quality goals.

In the 2024 ABP, we included Adjusted OIM as a financial performance metric to help drive the Company’s continued focus on adjusted operating margin expansion, and shifted the ESG scorecard to a modifier, whereby the distribution percentage amount may be increased or decreased based on the Company’s performance towards ESG goals. Additionally, in February 2025, the 2024 ABP was amended to clarify the plan’s funding methodology and update certain terminology to reflect a single company-wide funding approach, including use of the Applicable Distribution Percentage to represent the portion of each annual bonus award that is funded based on the Company’s performance against defined metrics. No changes were made to the formula for determining individual bonus awards. Refer to Short-Term Incentives on page 57 for further information on our 2024 ABP.

| Financial Metrics                   |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Adjusted Net Sales(1)               
 Adjusted EPS(1)                     
 Adjusted Operating Income Margin(1) |     | Links to the success of our category leadership strategy, expansion into high-growth adjacencies and driving profitable growth.                                                                                                                        |
| ESG (Modifier)