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LISINOPRIL

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At a Glance: This Drug in 2015

39.1M
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 2 of 3395

$253M
Retail Cost

Rank: 120 of 3395

7,765,354
Patients

Rank: 2 of 3395

477,174
Prescribers

Rank: 13 of 3395

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61%

of people say

it's worth it

51%

of people say

it worked well

14%

of people say

it's a huge hassle

Alternatives:

Benazepril Captopril Enalapril Losartan Benicar

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

32.8M

2011

34M

2012

36.9M

2013

38.3M

2014

39.1M

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$322M

2011

$293M

2012

$307M

2013

$282M

2014

$253M

2015

Average Patient Cost

Average amount that patients without a low-income subsidy paid each year.

$33

2011

$26

2012

$23

2013

$20

2014

$17

2015

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
California	778,369	3,391,265	$26.1M
Florida	622,563	3,027,166	$16.9M
Texas	544,274	2,457,766	$16.7M
Pennsylvania	392,128	2,091,835	$12.6M
New York	378,929	1,953,186	$11.2M
Ohio	370,970	1,843,018	$11.2M
Illinois	288,361	1,416,281	$10.2M
Michigan	322,212	1,398,230	$10.3M
North Carolina	254,105	1,329,569	$8.14M
Georgia	227,722	1,249,000	$6.47M
Massachusetts	219,362	1,148,266	$6.92M
Missouri	201,978	1,101,920	$6.55M
Tennessee	205,418	1,055,028	$6.41M
Kentucky	161,423	907,273	$5.13M
Indiana	181,735	865,577	$5.9M
Arizona	193,995	853,015	$5.98M
Virginia	176,442	852,530	$5.88M
Washington	176,887	796,557	$5.35M
Minnesota	158,559	708,282	$5.58M
Wisconsin	152,295	696,597	$5.09M
Alabama	124,096	610,197	$3.66M
New Jersey	137,230	608,274	$4.41M
Louisiana	111,394	599,704	$3.54M
South Carolina	116,511	593,023	$3.42M
Oregon	120,531	550,810	$3.46M
Colorado	123,205	540,690	$4.08M
Arkansas	90,988	518,095	$2.77M
Oklahoma	104,500	498,546	$3.58M
Maryland	118,816	497,331	$3.78M
Iowa	88,690	466,314	$2.64M
Mississippi	74,540	421,599	$2.17M
Connecticut	88,675	416,050	$3.02M
Kansas	75,644	388,988	$2.39M
West Virginia	66,505	356,982	$2.07M
Nevada	69,489	302,683	$2.18M
New Mexico	62,560	276,758	$1.99M
Nebraska	40,791	225,346	$1.22M
Rhode Island	36,767	212,356	$1.4M
Maine	49,756	210,152	$1.58M
Utah	45,763	191,876	$1.28M
Idaho	38,718	171,806	$1.12M
New Hampshire	37,320	167,893	$1.12M
Montana	25,153	117,758	$770K
South Dakota	22,347	115,904	$730K
Hawaii	26,840	115,658	$1.01M
Delaware	26,693	104,169	$930K
North Dakota	20,277	99,868	$617K
Vermont	18,830	79,957	$513K
District of Columbia	14,920	69,723	$433K
Wyoming	11,462	53,443	$337K
Alaska	8,419	47,335	$339K

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 LISINOPRIL

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
TERENCE FRINKS M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled7,759	TUCKER	Georgia
CHRISTOPHER LABONTE MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled4,231	SAINT LOUIS	Missouri
DANIEL HURLEY M.D. Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled3,912	BEECH GROVE	Indiana
ROBERT PEARLSTEIN D.O. Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled3,836	EAST NORRITON	Pennsylvania
BRADLEY WARD Family Medicine	Claims Filled3,730	TAYLORSVILLE	Georgia
FADI SABA M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled3,729	ST PETERSBURG	Florida
MIGUEL STUBBS M.D.,P.C. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled3,626	SMYRNA	Georgia
JOHN RICHARD M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled3,496	LEXINGTON	Kentucky
GUIDO RING MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled3,187	CORDELE	Georgia
BRUCE PENDLEY MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled3,096	EAST RIDGE	Tennessee
ASHOK KANCHARLA M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled2,944	ROYSTON	Georgia
DAN WATERS MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled2,906	OKLAHOMA CITY	Oklahoma
ANDREW COLMAN DO General Practice	Claims Filled2,688	WESTLAND	Michigan
CYNTHIA PINSON MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled2,601	HUNTINGTON	West Virginia
ERIC BARNES D.O. Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled2,563	COLUMBIA	Missouri
FREDRICK SHORT DO Family Medicine	Claims Filled2,492	TONGANOXIE	Kansas
ABDULLAH ARSHAD MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled2,481	HAYTI	Missouri
GEORGE PURSLEY MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled2,476	AUGUSTA	Georgia
CRISTOBAL ROSARIO M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled2,456	PALM HARBOR	Florida
MICHAEL AHEARN MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled2,452	KEWANEE	Illinois
JOHN HILL MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled2,378	COMMERCE	Georgia
PAULO RIBEIRO MD Cardiovascular Disease	Claims Filled2,368	LITTLE ROCK	Arkansas
WILLIAM TAYLOR MD Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled2,329	DUBLIN	Georgia
ASHIR WAHAB MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled2,317	LYNWOOD	Illinois
MICHAEL SATCHELL MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled2,313	ALBANY	Georgia