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MERCAPTOPURINE

At a Glance: This Drug in 2014

76.4K
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 723 of 3362

$5.76M
Retail Cost

Rank: 958 of 3362

14,319
Patients

Rank: 829 of 3362

9,837
Prescribers

Rank: 814 of 3362

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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

Note: While the rest of this page displays data from 2014, the charts above display data through 2015, from a special release by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
California	1,883	9,368	$858K
New York	1,757	9,305	$674K
Florida	1,151	5,767	$414K
Pennsylvania	765	4,218	$349K
North Carolina	547	3,073	$207K
New Jersey	629	3,005	$231K
Texas	594	2,992	$201K
Ohio	563	2,879	$231K
Massachusetts	533	2,824	$195K
Illinois	411	2,182	$166K
Connecticut	426	2,152	$152K
Michigan	383	1,778	$139K
Georgia	309	1,693	$119K
Minnesota	299	1,644	$153K
Wisconsin	304	1,616	$118K
Arizona	315	1,570	$114K
Tennessee	282	1,519	$101K
Missouri	286	1,451	$96.9K
Virginia	295	1,430	$106K
Indiana	210	1,159	$77.5K
Washington	193	1,004	$73K
South Carolina	187	984	$63.4K
Nebraska	161	974	$60.4K
Oklahoma	172	924	$66.3K
Arkansas	151	896	$53.1K
Kentucky	150	862	$59K
Maryland	187	771	$71.3K
Louisiana	132	761	$43.5K
Kansas	119	705	$47K
Oregon	126	678	$59.3K
New Hampshire	97	518	$37K
Maine	101	500	$40.6K
Iowa	80	497	$35.6K
Alabama	97	479	$35.7K
Colorado	94	433	$44.5K
Mississippi	65	390	$23K
West Virginia	70	373	$26.4K
Nevada	82	370	$25.4K
New Mexico	82	363	$27.7K
Rhode Island	55	357	$19.3K
Idaho	60	321	$20K
Utah	70	319	$25K
Vermont	56	291	$19.9K
Delaware	45	174	$19.1K
North Dakota	25	155	$11.6K
Hawaii	28	146	$8,074
Montana	21	103	$7,919
Wyoming	16	78	$5,382
South Dakota	15	66	$5,410
Alaska	13	54	$4,496
District of Columbia	11	53	$3,786

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 2014 includes more than 1.4 billion prescriptions written by more than 1.3 million doctors, nurses and other providers. This database lists about 428,000 of those providers who wrote 50 or more prescriptions for at least one drug that year. Almost 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 Filled136	ELKHART	Indiana
WALTER TRUDEAU M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled96	SACRAMENTO	California
ALEXANDRA GUTIERREZ MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled93	SAINT LOUIS	Missouri
JAMES LISI M.D. Specialist	Claims Filled92	ELYRIA	Ohio
MARK CHAPMAN M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled88	NEW YORK	New York
MICHAEL JONES M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled88	OMAHA	Nebraska
DAVID SEIDL MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled86	JOPLIN	Missouri
KHALID ALAM MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled85	MENASHA	Wisconsin
JOEL KICHLER MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled84	NEW KENSINGTON	Pennsylvania
THEMISTOCLES DASSOPOULOS MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled81	SAINT LOUIS	Missouri
RONALD MENSH MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled80	BENNINGTON	Vermont
MARK FELDMAN M.D. Specialist	Claims Filled80	BELLEVILLE	Illinois
WILLIAM TREMAINE M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled79	ROCHESTER	Minnesota
CARL JONES DO Gastroenterology	Claims Filled78	NACOGDOCHES	Texas
JONATHAN EISNER MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled78	HAMPTON	Virginia
KAREN JEROME-ZAPADKA M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled76	BEAVER FALLS	Pennsylvania
VLADISLAVA BUNTIC M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled74	ERIE	Pennsylvania
RICHARD MARINA MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled74	YOUNGSTOWN	Ohio
HOUSEIN WAZAZ M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled72	MERIDEN	Connecticut
ROBERT FADDEN M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled72	BEAVER FALLS	Pennsylvania
FRANCIS FARRAYE M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled69	BOSTON	Massachusetts
JAMES MARION MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled68	NEW YORK	New York
MAXINE LUBKIN MSN, ANP-C Nurse Practitioner, Adult Health	Claims Filled68	ROCHESTER	New York
MARK EISNER MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled68	ZEPHYRHILLS	Florida
KRISHNAMURTHY SHIVSHANKER M.D. Specialist	Claims Filled68	HOUSTON	Texas