BASIS OF PRESENTATION	3 Months Ended
BASIS OF PRESENTATION	Mar. 31, 2025
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
BASIS OF PRESENTATION	BASIS OF PRESENTATION The unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements of Baxter International Inc. and its subsidiaries (we, our or Baxter) have been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for interim financial reporting. Accordingly, certain information and note disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (U.S. GAAP) in the United States have been condensed or omitted. These unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 (2024 Annual Report). In the opinion of management, the unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments necessary for a fair statement of the financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented. All such adjustments, unless otherwise noted herein, are of a normal, recurring nature. The disclosures presented in our notes to the consolidated financial statements are presented on a continuing operations basis. The results of operations for the current interim period are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations to be expected for the full year. On August 12, 2024, we entered into an Equity Purchase Agreement (EPA) with certain affiliates of Carlyle Group Inc. (Carlyle) to sell our Kidney Care business. That business, which is now known as Vantive Health LLC (Vantive) is comprised of our former Kidney Care segment and provides chronic and acute dialysis therapies and services, including peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis, continuous renal replacement therapies, and other organ support therapies. On January 31, 2025, we completed the sale of our Kidney Care business to Carlyle for an aggregate purchase price of $3.80 billion in cash, subject to certain closing cash, working capital and debt adjustments. After giving effect to certain adjustments, we received approximately $3.71 billion pre-tax cash proceeds at closing of the transaction with the net after tax proceeds of approximately $3.3 billion, subject to certain post-closing adjustments. The financial position, results of operations and cash flows of our Kidney Care business, including the gain on sale of that business and the related cash proceeds received, are reported as discontinued operations in the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements, and our prior period results have been adjusted to reflect discontinued operations. See Note 2 for additional information. Hurricane Helene In September 2024, Hurricane Helene, which brought significant rain and extensive flooding to Western North Carolina, caused damage to certain of our assets at our North Cove facility in Marion, North Carolina and disrupted operations at that facility. Since then, we have actively worked with customers, regulators and other stakeholders to manage inventory and minimize disruption to patient care as we worked towards resuming our North Cove manufacturing operations. While we continue to increase allocation levels across key impacted product groups, the facility was fully operational by the end of the first quarter of 2025. In the first quarter of 2025, we recorded $98 million of pre-tax net charges related to remediation, air freight and other costs as a result of the damages caused by Hurricane Helene. These amounts were recorded as a component of cost of sales in the condensed consolidated statements of income for the three month period ended March 31, 2025. Risks and Uncertainties Supply Constraints, Tariffs and Global Economic Conditions We have experienced significant challenges to our global supply chain, including production delays and interruptions, increased costs and shortages of raw materials and component parts (including resins and electromechanical devices), higher transportation costs, adverse impacts from significant weather events (including Hurricane Helene, which caused the flooding of our North Cove facility), elevated inflation levels and interest rates, disruptions to certain ports of call and access to shipping ports around the world, the war in Ukraine, the conflict in the Middle East and other geopolitical events. While we have seen improvements in the availability of component parts and improved pricing in raw materials and on transportation costs, some of these challenges are expected to have a negative impact on our results of operations in the future. In addition, recent announcements regarding changes in U.S. trade policies and practices, including the implementation of global tariffs and proposed further tariffs (including potential pharmaceutical tariffs), and responses from other jurisdictions, have significantly affected financial markets and economic conditions. While we are in the process of implementing select offsets for 2025 and working to identify additional mitigation opportunities in 2025 and beyond, we currently expect that our results will be adversely affected (including as a result of a failure to achieve the anticipated offsets or an inability to identify additional mitigating actions). Additionally, continued global macroeconomic uncertainty, including in trade policies and practices, elevated tariffs and in operational and policy changes in the governments of the U.S. and other countries, could contribute to further market volatility, deteriorating or prolonged weakened economic conditions and decreased hospital capital spending levels, all of which could adversely affect our business, results of operations or financial condition. Sole source supplier relationships may limit our ability to respond to these tariffs with alternative of lower cost raw material or component parts. We expect that these challenges, among other factors, may continue to have an adverse effect on our business.