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PINDOLOL

Visken (pindolol) is a beta blocker. It lowers blood pressure by slowing down your heart rate, which helps the heart to pump blood with less effort. Source: Iodine *

*This description is for related drug Visken

At a Glance: This Drug in 2015

72K
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 744 of 3395

$6.24M
Retail Cost

Rank: 1081 of 3395

13,172
Patients

Rank: 851 of 3395

11,777
Prescribers

Rank: 769 of 3395

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Alternatives:

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This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

80.8K

2011

80.2K

2012

83.4K

2013

79.2K

2014

72K

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$4.44M

2011

$5.39M

2012

$6.1M

2013

$6.67M

2014

$6.24M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$72

2011

$79

2012

$99

2013

$115

2014

$155

2015

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
Florida	1,316	6,203	$547K
Pennsylvania	915	5,175	$432K
New York	1,016	5,040	$485K
Georgia	721	4,338	$281K
Texas	706	3,839	$328K
California	773	3,825	$432K
Oklahoma	462	3,632	$276K
North Carolina	528	2,884	$222K
Alabama	442	2,508	$170K
New Jersey	517	2,418	$228K
Ohio	457	2,235	$207K
Illinois	329	2,043	$157K
Michigan	460	2,034	$192K
Tennessee	298	1,599	$139K
Kentucky	265	1,486	$134K
Indiana	307	1,467	$149K
South Carolina	268	1,454	$107K
Arkansas	227	1,433	$103K
Massachusetts	262	1,327	$132K
Wisconsin	235	1,298	$109K
Minnesota	232	1,198	$127K
Louisiana	193	1,186	$96.8K
Missouri	218	1,178	$97K
Virginia	203	1,063	$88.8K
Mississippi	150	949	$72.7K
Arizona	204	940	$78.9K
Iowa	130	883	$70.4K
Connecticut	175	867	$83.4K
Kansas	114	644	$42.5K
Washington	129	566	$56.4K
West Virginia	100	560	$49.8K
South Dakota	85	553	$41.3K
Maryland	122	536	$50.6K
Oregon	103	532	$52.8K
Colorado	117	527	$60.3K
Vermont	91	425	$41.2K
New Hampshire	81	412	$36.4K
Nebraska	62	396	$32.9K
Utah	62	345	$28.6K
Rhode Island	59	335	$25.6K
Maine	60	333	$32.8K
North Dakota	45	260	$24K
Nevada	64	249	$28.3K
Montana	29	155	$12.9K
Hawaii	32	141	$16.2K
New Mexico	37	133	$20.1K
Delaware	33	123	$16.9K
Idaho	23	92	$9,682
Wyoming		51	$3,126
District of Columbia		18	$1,121
Alaska		16	$2,346

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 PINDOLOL

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
AIDA CASTRO M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled55	TAMPA	Florida
SUDHENDU CHOUBEY M.D. Cardiovascular Disease	Claims Filled55	ROANOKE	Virginia
SANJAY DHAR MD Cardiovascular Disease	Claims Filled55	SANTA ROSA	California
FRANK MAZZOLA MD Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology	Claims Filled54	HARLINGEN	Texas
CARLOS ALBRECHT M.D. Cardiovascular Disease	Claims Filled52	LANCASTER	South Carolina
ELIAS ISSA MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled52	BLUE RIDGE	Georgia
JEROME KUHNLEIN M.D. Cardiovascular Disease	Claims Filled51	SAINT JOSEPH	Michigan
RICHARD TORRICELLI M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled51	CAPE CORAL	Florida
DAVID HANSEN MD Cardiovascular Disease	Claims Filled50	NASHVILLE	Tennessee
MANUEL VEGA MD, FACC, FSCAI Cardiovascular Disease	Claims Filled50	DUBLIN	Georgia