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POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL 3350

Treats occasional constipation. Source: National Library of Medicine

At a Glance: This Drug in 2015

3.8M
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 88 of 3395

$84.2M
Retail Cost

Rank: 308 of 3395

1,226,560
Patients

Rank: 71 of 3395

276,586
Prescribers

Rank: 68 of 3395

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75%

of people say

it's worth it

54%

of people say

it worked well

10%

of people say

it's a huge hassle

Alternatives:

Dulcolax Colace Fibercon Magnesium Citrate Senna-S Metamucil Senna

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

3.1M

2011

3.43M

2012

3.64M

2013

3.77M

2014

3.8M

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$82.1M

2011

$96M

2012

$95.4M

2013

$89.9M

2014

$84.2M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$23

2011

$23

2012

$22

2013

$24

2014

$23

2015

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
New York	89,510	278,724	$6.8M
Pennsylvania	67,536	227,953	$4.81M
California	74,930	211,325	$4.8M
Ohio	59,072	167,457	$3.99M
North Carolina	57,243	166,390	$3.7M
Texas	62,089	161,398	$4.03M
Florida	56,197	146,741	$3.06M
Illinois	43,139	142,972	$2.98M
Michigan	47,555	128,632	$3.08M
Wisconsin	36,729	126,959	$2.52M
Indiana	38,913	122,340	$2.85M
Minnesota	35,607	122,015	$2.62M
Tennessee	37,735	117,765	$2.68M
Kentucky	32,633	107,757	$2.22M
Missouri	31,624	104,269	$2.2M
Georgia	34,014	99,720	$2.03M
Washington	31,929	92,523	$1.98M
Massachusetts	29,804	90,920	$2.23M
Iowa	21,324	89,997	$1.87M
Virginia	28,658	85,120	$2.1M
Louisiana	24,161	72,017	$1.59M
Alabama	23,698	69,885	$1.58M
New Jersey	21,370	68,642	$1.51M
South Carolina	22,327	65,507	$1.4M
Oregon	16,709	53,743	$1.3M
Mississippi	17,169	52,888	$1.15M
Oklahoma	14,329	51,098	$1.07M
Kansas	13,725	50,658	$1.04M
Arkansas	15,899	49,550	$1.02M
Nebraska	12,264	48,024	$894K
Arizona	19,325	46,497	$1.04M
Maryland	13,519	43,563	$943K
Connecticut	11,601	34,398	$875K
West Virginia	12,046	31,912	$679K
Colorado	10,088	30,575	$689K
Rhode Island	10,457	29,127	$556K
South Dakota	4,462	20,951	$368K
Utah	6,033	19,251	$432K
Nevada	7,435	18,861	$385K
Idaho	5,702	17,954	$382K
Maine	5,563	17,076	$383K
New Hampshire	4,924	15,635	$355K
North Dakota	3,479	14,310	$282K
Montana	3,551	11,476	$221K
Hawaii	3,826	10,550	$276K
New Mexico	4,191	10,292	$219K
Delaware	3,427	10,211	$222K
Vermont	3,522	9,990	$196K
Wyoming	1,295	4,514	$93.4K
District of Columbia	1,502	3,783	$96.7K
Alaska	1,043	3,588	$80.2K

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 POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL 3350

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
ALAN BUNIN M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled568	BELLEVUE	Washington
STUART ZAKEM MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled566	CINCINNATI	Ohio
PIYUSH PATEL M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled565	COLUMBUS	Georgia
SIVA CHOCKALINGAM MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled565	COLUMBIA	South Carolina
ADOLPHUS LEWIS DO Family Medicine	Claims Filled562	FORT WORTH	Texas
HALINA POLEK-NOWAKOWSKA MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled561	GONZALES	Louisiana
STUART GROSS MEDICAL DOCTOR Pain Medicine	Claims Filled559	MCCOMB	Mississippi
ERIC BARNES D.O. Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled557	COLUMBIA	Missouri
CHARLES DAVIS MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled548	OVERLAND PARK	Kansas
JOHN MEHARG MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled548	SINKING SPRING	Pennsylvania
PATRICIA PARMLEY MD Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics	Claims Filled546	LITTLE ROCK	Arkansas
CYNTHIA PINSON MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled544	HUNTINGTON	West Virginia
MATTHEW LOGAN MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled543	STILLWATER	Minnesota
ANNE PAYETTE RN, FAMILY NURSE PRA Nurse Practitioner, Family	Claims Filled539	GLOVERSVILLE	New York
HANS JENNERJAHN P.A. Physician Assistant	Claims Filled532	FRESH MEADOWS	New York
RICHARD GROSSBERG MD Adolescent Medicine	Claims Filled532	BEACHWOOD	Ohio
DALJEET SINGH M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled531	HIGGINSVILLE	Missouri
ZIAD MUSAITIF DO Family Medicine	Claims Filled529	PEORIA	Illinois
STEPHEN EVANS MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled528	BUFFALO	New York
ANDREW COLMAN DO General Practice	Claims Filled524	WESTLAND	Michigan
ROBERT FOLDVARY M.D. Pediatrics	Claims Filled523	DEFIANCE	Ohio
CHRISTOPHER LABONTE MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled521	SAINT LOUIS	Missouri
STEPHEN BESSON MD Adolescent Medicine	Claims Filled520	CYNTHIANA	Kentucky
BRYON HIRSCHMAN MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled520	NORFOLK	Nebraska
JOVITA ANYANWU M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled519	ORLAND PARK	Illinois