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Boston Scientific Corp. – ‘8-K’ for 4/28/21 – ‘JSON’

On:  Wednesday, 4/28/21, at 6:34am ET   ·   For:  4/28/21   ·   Accession #:  885725-21-12   ·   File #:  1-11083

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 4/28/21  Boston Scientific Corp.           8-K:2,9     4/28/21   13:644K

Current Report   —   Form 8-K
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 8-K         Current Report                                      HTML     28K 
 2: EX-99.1     EX-99.1 Q1 2021 Earnings Release                    HTML    112K 
 9: R1          Cover Document                                      HTML     53K 
11: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     12K 
 8: XML         XBRL Instance -- bsx-20210428_htm                    XML     30K 
10: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX      6K 
 4: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- bsx-20210428_cal                XML      7K 
 5: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- bsx-20210428_def                 XML     41K 
 6: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- bsx-20210428_lab                      XML     87K 
 7: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- bsx-20210428_pre               XML     42K 
 3: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- bsx-20210428                          XSD     13K 
12: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               14±    21K 
13: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0000885725-21-000012-xbrl      Zip     32K 


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