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URSODIOL

Dissolves certain kinds of gallstones in the body when they cannot be removed by surgery. Source: National Library of Medicine

At a Glance: This Drug in 2015

379K
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 396 of 3395

$137M
Retail Cost

Rank: 206 of 3395

74,234
Patients

Rank: 473 of 3395

48,097
Prescribers

Rank: 414 of 3395

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This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

294K

2011

315K

2012

354K

2013

370K

2014

379K

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$36.3M

2011

$38M

2012

$39.8M

2013

$79.9M

2014

$137M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$126

2011

$136

2012

$147

2013

$208

2014

$324

2015

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
New York	7,664	40,110	$14.3M
California	8,605	40,078	$14.1M
Texas	5,646	26,718	$9.05M
Florida	5,425	25,296	$9.28M
Pennsylvania	3,772	19,247	$7.22M
Michigan	3,367	14,521	$5.47M
Ohio	2,973	13,983	$5.29M
Illinois	2,561	13,118	$4.93M
Massachusetts	2,464	12,623	$5.2M
New Jersey	2,261	10,123	$3.69M
Tennessee	1,887	10,040	$3.12M
Wisconsin	1,770	9,964	$3.51M
North Carolina	1,890	9,705	$3.36M
Georgia	1,767	9,112	$3.05M
Missouri	1,444	7,821	$2.66M
Virginia	1,599	7,450	$2.61M
Minnesota	1,419	7,047	$3.56M
Indiana	1,283	6,723	$2.36M
Washington	1,363	6,664	$2.49M
Arizona	1,348	5,994	$2.35M
Kentucky	1,089	5,681	$1.84M
Connecticut	1,010	5,193	$2.06M
Oklahoma	942	4,814	$1.61M
Louisiana	880	4,718	$1.46M
Colorado	1,004	4,713	$1.76M
Iowa	740	4,613	$1.87M
Oregon	987	4,347	$1.67M
Alabama	823	4,294	$1.38M
Maryland	944	3,969	$1.6M
Kansas	622	3,561	$1.12M
South Carolina	700	3,481	$1.09M
Mississippi	500	2,641	$796K
Arkansas	384	2,310	$767K
Utah	468	2,226	$920K
Nebraska	359	2,165	$809K
Nevada	443	1,936	$765K
Rhode Island	349	1,912	$550K
New Mexico	408	1,893	$801K
West Virginia	337	1,883	$643K
Hawaii	396	1,815	$794K
Idaho	296	1,600	$628K
New Hampshire	329	1,540	$621K
Maine	312	1,301	$547K
South Dakota	211	1,299	$485K
North Dakota	140	806	$389K
Alaska	105	747	$176K
Montana	142	719	$274K
Delaware	197	693	$297K
Vermont	119	581	$269K
District of Columbia	98	344	$130K
Wyoming	72	310	$113K

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 URSODIOL

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
FREDERICK JOHLIN MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled248	IOWA CITY	Iowa
LEWIS TEPERMAN M.D. Transplant Surgery	Claims Filled245	NEW YORK	New York
PAUL KWO M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled245	STANFORD	California
JOHN GOSS MD Pediatric Surgery	Claims Filled243	HOUSTON	Texas
JEFFREY CRIPPIN MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled242	SAINT LOUIS	Missouri
MICHAEL LUCEY MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled242	MADISON	Wisconsin
NANCY KEMENY MD Medical Oncology	Claims Filled232	NEW YORK	New York
JOYKUMAR PATEL M.D. Hepatology	Claims Filled226	OKLAHOMA CITY	Oklahoma
ANITA LIPPELLO CRNP	Claims Filled221	PITTSBURGH	Pennsylvania
JOHN DUFFY MD Transplant Surgery	Claims Filled220	OKLAHOMA CITY	Oklahoma
THOMAS SCHIANO MD Hepatology	Claims Filled220	NEW YORK	New York
RICHARD GILROY MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled219	MURRAY	Utah
LARRY DEFFENBAUGH D.O. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled216	GALENA	Kansas
STEVEN-HUY HAN MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled213	LOS ANGELES	California
MICHAEL GALAMBOS M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled211	ATLANTA	Georgia
BORYS BUNIAK MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled209	LIVERPOOL	New York
JI FAN M.D. Transplant Surgery	Claims Filled207	MIAMI	Florida
MARK WONG MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled203	PHOENIX	Arizona
REBECCA HAMILTON NP Nurse Practitioner	Claims Filled202	KINGSPORT	Tennessee
HUSSEIN EL-NEWIHI MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled193	EL CENTRO	California
NAOKY TSAI MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled193	KAILUA	Hawaii
AIJAZ AHMED MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled193	STANFORD	California
BRENDAN MCGUIRE MD Hepatology	Claims Filled192	BIRMINGHAM	Alabama
KAPIL CHOPRA M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled190	PITTSBURGH	Pennsylvania
ANDREA DUCHINI MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled190	HOUSTON	Texas