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LACTATED RINGERS

RINGERS SOLUTION,LACTATED

At a Glance: This Drug in 2014

4,714
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 1556 of 3362

$92.8K
Retail Cost

Rank: 2050 of 3362

1,671
Patients

Rank: 1511 of 3362

1,037
Prescribers

Rank: 1624 of 3362

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

3,503

2011

4,101

2012

4,730

2013

4,714

2014

4,953

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$122K

2011

$109K

2012

$80.4K

2013

$92.8K

2014

$145K

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$42

2011

$39

2012

$35

2013

$34

2014

$40

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	598	929	$14K
Ohio	45	307	$4,915
Pennsylvania	52	222	$4,192
Kentucky	64	200	$5,982
Michigan	60	185	$5,304
Connecticut	13	173	$2,811
Massachusetts	19	167	$4,125
Florida	51	161	$5,236
Minnesota	20	155	$2,531
Georgia	36	140	$2,407
Missouri	39	127	$1,778
Texas	83	124	$1,246
New Hampshire		122	$3,540
New York	36	118	$2,828
Tennessee	53	117	$2,032
Washington	24	108	$1,669
Virginia	29	106	$2,487
Alabama	22	104	$1,921
Illinois	44	100	$1,673
Utah	36	95	$1,456
Nebraska		94	$5,073
Indiana	35	89	$1,327
West Virginia		84	$1,642
Wisconsin		59	$688
North Carolina	14	56	$1,514
Colorado		49	$1,639
Mississippi	33	45	$691
Idaho	12	42	$713
Arizona	25	40	$954
Arkansas	14	37	$803
Maryland	12	35	$592
New Jersey		34	$410
District of Columbia	11	30	$1,524
Maine		27	$198
South Dakota		26	$175
Louisiana		22	$608
South Carolina		20	$303
Oklahoma	14	20	$215
New Mexico	14	15	$85
Nevada		14	$159
Kansas		14	$241
North Dakota	11	12	$129

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 LACTATED RINGERS

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
DAVID BURNS M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled109	BURLINGTON	Massachusetts
JAMES JUNG MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled95	LOS ANGELES	California
SANG BAIK Internal Medicine	Claims Filled80	LOS ANGELES	California
JOHN GALLOWAY MD Surgery	Claims Filled79	ATLANTA	Georgia
GARRY PEARSON D.O. Family Medicine	Claims Filled73	JEFFERSON CITY	Missouri
JASON TSAI MD Nephrology	Claims Filled59	BIRMINGHAM	Alabama
THOMAS LEHNER M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled55	CLEVELAND	Ohio
PAUL KIETZMANN MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled52	ALEXANDRIA	Minnesota
REX MAHNENSMITH M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled51	WATERBURY	Connecticut