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CRESTOR
ROSUVASTATIN CALCIUM
Crestor (rosuvastatin) is a statin medication that changes the amount of cholesterol your body makes. It lowers "bad" cholesterol (LDL) and improves your "good" cholesterol (HDL) levels. Source: Iodine
At a Glance: This Drug in 2015
Medicare Part D Claims
Rank: 35 of 3395
Retail Cost
Rank: 2 of 3395
Patients
Rank: 47 of 3395
Prescribers
Rank: 72 of 3395
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60%
of people say
it's worth it
47%
of people say
it worked well
15%
of people say
it's a huge hassle
Alternatives:
Atorvastatin Lovastatin Simvastatin Pravastatin Vytorin Livalo
This Drug's History
Claims
The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year
7.83M
2011
8.62M
2012
9.07M
2013
9.07M
2014
8.71M
2015
Spending
The total Part D spending on this drug
each year
$1.42B
2011
$1.79B
2012
$2.22B
2013
$2.54B
2014
$2.88B
2015
Average Patient Cost
Average amount that patients without a low-income subsidy paid each year.
$265
2011
$279
2012
$297
2013
$309
2014
$328
2015
Use by state
| State | Patients | Claims | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 177,037 | 941,606 | $304M |
| Florida | 166,046 | 762,385 | $258M |
| Texas | 145,292 | 671,411 | $233M |
| California | 124,982 | 650,308 | $204M |
| Pennsylvania | 81,227 | 417,665 | $137M |
| North Carolina | 68,452 | 369,976 | $109M |
| New Jersey | 73,722 | 320,198 | $125M |
| Illinois | 62,111 | 301,713 | $105M |
| Georgia | 55,684 | 292,074 | $87.6M |
| Ohio | 58,679 | 270,443 | $92.2M |
| Tennessee | 43,998 | 217,929 | $69M |
| Virginia | 41,197 | 198,567 | $67M |
| Louisiana | 33,998 | 197,399 | $54.9M |
| South Carolina | 37,245 | 195,532 | $60.3M |
| Kentucky | 34,184 | 188,579 | $55.6M |
| Indiana | 38,829 | 186,375 | $63.4M |
| Missouri | 33,229 | 184,861 | $53.6M |
| Michigan | 41,581 | 168,120 | $67.5M |
| Massachusetts | 32,175 | 163,873 | $54.9M |
| Alabama | 30,408 | 153,560 | $50.8M |
| Connecticut | 30,608 | 137,067 | $51.2M |
| Arizona | 30,703 | 127,297 | $48.9M |
| Wisconsin | 26,324 | 121,038 | $42.3M |
| Maryland | 30,080 | 118,613 | $49.7M |
| Mississippi | 19,557 | 112,163 | $29.9M |
| Washington | 23,473 | 109,770 | $37.7M |
| West Virginia | 18,566 | 100,348 | $32.1M |
| Minnesota | 22,238 | 97,385 | $36.8M |
| Iowa | 15,738 | 88,662 | $25.8M |
| Oklahoma | 17,547 | 86,754 | $28.4M |
| Colorado | 17,747 | 78,528 | $27M |
| Arkansas | 12,490 | 73,098 | $19.9M |
| Kansas | 13,477 | 68,661 | $21.1M |
| Oregon | 12,178 | 56,264 | $19M |
| Nebraska | 9,358 | 55,709 | $15.4M |
| Maine | 9,350 | 39,915 | $15.8M |
| New Hampshire | 7,344 | 35,138 | $12.3M |
| Delaware | 9,298 | 34,685 | $16.2M |
| Nevada | 7,722 | 32,625 | $11.8M |
| New Mexico | 7,235 | 31,692 | $11.1M |
| Rhode Island | 5,448 | 28,574 | $8.09M |
| South Dakota | 5,087 | 28,167 | $8.22M |
| Utah | 6,375 | 26,488 | $9.53M |
| North Dakota | 4,799 | 25,034 | $7.32M |
| Hawaii | 4,492 | 20,973 | $7.71M |
| Idaho | 4,549 | 20,550 | $6.93M |
| Montana | 3,894 | 18,683 | $5.99M |
| District of Columbia | 3,412 | 14,289 | $4.97M |
| Vermont | 3,101 | 13,484 | $5.43M |
| Wyoming | 1,621 | 7,696 | $2.52M |
| Alaska | 1,209 | 5,774 | $1.92M |
About This Data
Prescribing data from Medicare’s prescription drug benefit, known as Part D, was compiled and released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that oversees the program. The data for 2015 includes more than 1.4 billion prescriptions written by nearly 1.4 million doctors, nurses and other providers. This database lists about 447,000 of those providers who wrote 50 or more prescriptions for at least one drug that year. More than three-fourths of these prescriptions went to patients 65 and older; the rest were for disabled patients. Methodology »
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Top prescribers for CRESTOR
| Provider | Medicare Claims | City | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEW QUON M.D. |
Claims Filled4,869 |
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| GARY REZNIK MD |
Claims Filled3,520 |
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| ARMINE NAZARYAN M.D. |
Claims Filled2,539 |
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| JAVID YADEGAR MD |
Claims Filled2,138 |
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| GARBIS APELIAN MD |
Claims Filled2,034 |
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| KLAUDIYA RUVINSKY M.D. |
Claims Filled1,872 |
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| ALEXANDRE ALEXEYENKO M.D. |
Claims Filled1,868 |
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| YANINA BELOTSERKOVSKAYA M.D. |
Claims Filled1,763 |
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| MARK BARATS M.D. |
Claims Filled1,760 |
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| NOUNEH DANIELYAN M.D. |
Claims Filled1,739 |
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| AVIVA IOFEL MD |
Claims Filled1,729 |
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| FARHAD GHANAAT |
Claims Filled1,667 |
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| HOMAYOUN SHARIM M.D. |
Claims Filled1,608 |
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| DON LEE M.D. |
Claims Filled1,586 |
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| AZNIV ABRAHAMIAN M.D. |
Claims Filled1,470 |
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| INNA PILDYSH DO |
Claims Filled1,442 |
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| ELEONORA FEDONENKO M.D. |
Claims Filled1,415 |
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| VLAD NUSINOVICH M.D. |
Claims Filled1,396 |
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| ILYA RACHMAN M.D. |
Claims Filled1,384 |
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| SIMA MUSTER |
Claims Filled1,384 |
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| ALEKSANDR ZASYPKIN MD |
Claims Filled1,373 |
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| BENJAMIN BENNOV MD |
Claims Filled1,371 |
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| MARTHA VALDIVIA MD |
Claims Filled1,369 |
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| MARIO SANCHEZ D.O. |
Claims Filled1,359 |
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| BORIS GUREVICH M.D. |
Claims Filled1,351 |