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GELNIQUE

OXYBUTYNIN CHLORIDE

Oxytrol (Oxybutynin) is an anticholinergic. It relaxes the bladder muscles by lowering muscle spasms. This helps people go to the bathroom less often and better control their urination. Source: Iodine *

*This description is for related drug Oxybutynin

At a Glance: This Drug in 2014

17.6K
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 1094 of 3362

$5.3M
Retail Cost

Rank: 983 of 3362

4,724
Patients

Rank: 1133 of 3362

3,894
Prescribers

Rank: 1116 of 3362

More info on related drug Oxybutynin »

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Alternatives:

Enablex Detrol Sanctura Vesicare

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

42.7K

2011

43.6K

2012

26.7K

2013

17.7K

2014

11.4K

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$7.81M

2011

$9.44M

2012

$7.29M

2013

$5.31M

2014

$4.17M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$157

2011

$190

2012

$209

2013

$228

2014

$243

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
New York	565	2,019	$636K
Texas	361	1,316	$392K
Pennsylvania	323	1,307	$374K
California	363	1,271	$387K
New Jersey	302	1,055	$351K
Florida	314	1,000	$330K
North Carolina	208	883	$236K
Illinois	214	814	$245K
Ohio	172	596	$184K
Wisconsin	110	492	$134K
Michigan	132	470	$155K
Virginia	112	426	$122K
Missouri	100	424	$122K
Tennessee	101	409	$114K
Arizona	99	379	$124K
Connecticut	99	367	$113K
Indiana	94	362	$114K
Georgia	94	330	$96.6K
South Carolina	94	323	$94.3K
Louisiana	69	281	$77.5K
Massachusetts	79	278	$85.5K
Kansas	52	254	$72.9K
Maryland	70	227	$77K
Kentucky	60	221	$64.6K
Colorado	60	219	$59.3K
Alabama	59	198	$50.5K
Washington	46	182	$54.2K
Oklahoma	43	167	$48.9K
Oregon	42	162	$42.4K
Minnesota	32	125	$34K
Nebraska	25	107	$30.5K
New Hampshire	24	88	$23.7K
Delaware	32	86	$36.9K
Utah	21	78	$25.5K
Iowa	23	78	$22.7K
Arkansas	21	75	$19.2K
Maine	21	73	$20.3K
Mississippi	22	70	$16.5K
South Dakota	17	53	$14.4K
Nevada	15	47	$13.1K
Rhode Island		46	$10.6K
Idaho	14	41	$10.5K
West Virginia	15	35	$11.3K
District of Columbia	12	33	$10.2K
Vermont		32	$7,352
Montana		24	$6,054
North Dakota		19	$4,169
New Mexico		19	$7,379
Alaska		12	$5,302

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 GELNIQUE

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
SARAH GIRARDI MD Urology	Claims Filled59	MANHASSET	New York