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MERCAPTOPURINE

At a Glance: This Drug in 2015

80.3K
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 720 of 3395

$10.4M
Retail Cost

Rank: 899 of 3395

14,826
Patients

Rank: 821 of 3395

10,214
Prescribers

Rank: 810 of 3395

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This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

57.4K

2011

63K

2012

72.6K

2013

76.4K

2014

80.3K

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$5.7M

2011

$6.39M

2012

$6.27M

2013

$5.76M

2014

$10.4M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$109

2011

$167

2012

$140

2013

$135

2014

$183

2015

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
New York	1,840	9,748	$1.34M
California	1,960	9,706	$1.4M
Florida	1,168	5,912	$733K
Pennsylvania	759	4,205	$603K
Texas	629	3,312	$387K
North Carolina	560	3,251	$355K
New Jersey	670	3,164	$439K
Massachusetts	526	2,960	$401K
Ohio	554	2,951	$415K
Illinois	456	2,407	$302K
Connecticut	466	2,381	$319K
Georgia	345	1,843	$186K
Michigan	395	1,819	$287K
Wisconsin	320	1,769	$231K
Minnesota	312	1,739	$278K
Tennessee	305	1,649	$174K
Arizona	327	1,645	$208K
Missouri	279	1,490	$180K
Virginia	280	1,345	$166K
Indiana	206	1,207	$144K
Nebraska	172	1,107	$116K
Washington	194	1,052	$127K
South Carolina	175	1,000	$106K
Arkansas	144	967	$93.1K
Oklahoma	167	890	$112K
Maryland	213	879	$141K
Kentucky	146	873	$94.9K
Oregon	150	859	$122K
Louisiana	137	805	$81.9K
Kansas	115	734	$73K
New Hampshire	101	538	$70.6K
Alabama	100	528	$66.1K
Maine	106	517	$70.8K
Colorado	102	509	$82.9K
Iowa	84	464	$59.4K
Nevada	88	439	$57.1K
Mississippi	66	406	$37.8K
Utah	83	400	$48.7K
Rhode Island	60	384	$35.4K
West Virginia	63	366	$37K
Idaho	58	335	$39.3K
New Mexico	72	335	$47K
Vermont	62	300	$37.9K
Delaware	39	155	$30.7K
North Dakota	19	140	$18.5K
Montana	33	137	$17K
Hawaii	26	129	$15.7K
Wyoming	16	93	$12.1K
District of Columbia	16	64	$9,442
South Dakota	11	58	$8,799
Alaska	12	57	$6,677

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 MERCAPTOPURINE

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
BURTON BORON M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled168	ELKHART	Indiana
JESSE STONDELL M.D. Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program	Claims Filled144	SACRAMENTO	California
ALEXANDRA GUTIERREZ MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled105	SAINT LOUIS	Missouri
MICHAEL JONES M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled101	OMAHA	Nebraska
JAMES MARION MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled99	NEW YORK	New York
TYRON ALLI M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled94	OMAHA	Nebraska
MARK CHAPMAN M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled93	NEW YORK	New York
HOUSEIN WAZAZ M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled92	MERIDEN	Connecticut
KHALID ALAM MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled89	MENASHA	Wisconsin
RONALD MENSH MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled87	BENNINGTON	Vermont
KAREN JEROME-ZAPADKA M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled87	BEAVER FALLS	Pennsylvania
KIRON DAS Gastroenterology	Claims Filled87	NEW BRUNSWICK	New Jersey
JAMES LISI M.D. Specialist	Claims Filled83	ELYRIA	Ohio
KRISHNAMURTHY SHIVSHANKER M.D. Specialist	Claims Filled76	HOUSTON	Texas
JOEL KICHLER MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled75	NEW KENSINGTON	Pennsylvania
WILLIAM BRIGGS M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled75	TULSA	Oklahoma
HARRISON SHULL M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled74	NASHVILLE	Tennessee
CARL JONES DO Gastroenterology	Claims Filled73	NACOGDOCHES	Texas
DOUGLAS BROUILLETTE M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled72	OMAHA	Nebraska
KENNETH MILLER M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled71	NEW YORK	New York
ALAN GABBARD MD Specialist	Claims Filled70	SPRINGFIELD	Ohio
VLADISLAVA BUNTIC M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled69	ERIE	Pennsylvania
ALLAN PECK M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled69	CINCINNATI	Ohio
KRISTIN NASO D.O. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled69	SOUTHAMPTON	New York
MARK FELDMAN M.D. Specialist	Claims Filled69	BELLEVILLE	Illinois