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HYDRALAZINE HCL

Hydralazine is used to treat high blood pressure. Source: National Library of Medicine

At a Glance: This Drug in 2014

4.03M
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 84 of 3362

$86.7M
Retail Cost

Rank: 267 of 3362

790,599
Patients

Rank: 108 of 3362

231,124
Prescribers

Rank: 87 of 3362

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This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

2.63M

2011

3.1M

2012

3.68M

2013

4.03M

2014

4.34M

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$79.8M

2011

$87.8M

2012

$94.3M

2013

$86.7M

2014

$79.8M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$45

2011

$44

2012

$41

2013

$42

2014

$42

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	89,237	403,057	$10.6M
Texas	65,007	292,577	$6.55M
Florida	60,248	273,273	$5.25M
New York	50,864	268,747	$5.78M
Georgia	41,052	224,012	$4.5M
Ohio	36,194	182,264	$4.04M
Illinois	35,818	181,141	$3.92M
Pennsylvania	33,462	178,445	$3.72M
North Carolina	30,907	167,222	$3.15M
Michigan	36,499	164,654	$3.65M
Tennessee	27,956	141,838	$2.77M
Alabama	21,325	105,786	$2.23M
Missouri	18,609	99,510	$2M
Virginia	19,370	93,376	$1.89M
New Jersey	20,070	93,362	$2M
Kentucky	17,367	91,252	$1.83M
Louisiana	17,186	88,003	$1.83M
Indiana	17,749	84,541	$1.81M
Maryland	16,114	72,143	$1.77M
South Carolina	13,532	68,900	$1.21M
Mississippi	12,601	68,674	$1.31M
Arizona	15,649	68,059	$1.51M
Wisconsin	11,000	55,673	$1.23M
Massachusetts	10,106	52,122	$1.27M
Minnesota	9,137	43,047	$1.09M
Washington	8,555	38,759	$807K
Arkansas	7,218	38,649	$712K
Oklahoma	7,938	37,033	$804K
Connecticut	6,204	30,847	$695K
Nevada	6,888	29,904	$660K
Iowa	5,341	28,659	$530K
West Virginia	5,684	27,897	$532K
Colorado	5,705	25,600	$545K
Oregon	5,103	23,948	$538K
Kansas	4,000	20,203	$391K
Nebraska	3,159	17,433	$322K
District of Columbia	2,796	12,632	$289K
New Mexico	2,829	12,217	$269K
Maine	2,498	11,479	$291K
Rhode Island	1,882	10,918	$246K
Delaware	2,784	10,618	$299K
Hawaii	2,289	10,228	$271K
North Dakota	1,385	6,920	$144K
South Dakota	1,189	6,647	$130K
New Hampshire	1,187	5,130	$111K
Utah	1,317	5,060	$107K
Idaho	1,044	4,581	$96.2K
Montana	594	2,598	$46.1K
Wyoming	532	2,562	$45K
Alaska	300	1,756	$27K
Vermont	334	1,475	$31.2K

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 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 HYDRALAZINE HCL

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
TERENCE FRINKS M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled2,818	TUCKER	Georgia
MIGUEL STUBBS M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,699	SMYRNA	Georgia
OSCAR CHIEN M.D. Specialist	Claims Filled1,392	SAN GABRIEL	California
DENIS RUIZ-SERRANO MD Cardiovascular Disease	Claims Filled1,023	GUAYNABO	Puerto Rico
MICHAEL SATCHELL MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled1,017	ALBANY	Georgia
RAJESH AGARWAL M.D. Specialist	Claims Filled988	MAYFIELD HEIGHTS	Ohio
JAMES CARUSO MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled979	CHICAGO	Illinois
WEI SUN M.D. Nephrology	Claims Filled885	NEW YORK	New York
PEDRO LOPEZ LOPEZ Internal Medicine	Claims Filled882	GUAYAMA	Puerto Rico
RAMILO GATAPIA MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled877	KANSAS CITY	Missouri
SANJAY KUMAR MD Nephrology	Claims Filled874	WALTERBORO	South Carolina
DAN WATERS MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled867	OKLAHOMA CITY	Oklahoma
PETER ALLOTEY MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled864	MACON	Georgia
DANIEL HURLEY M.D. Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled862	BEECH GROVE	Indiana
CARLOS MARTINEZ M.D. Nephrology	Claims Filled858	MACON	Georgia
WILLIAM HICKS M.D Internal Medicine	Claims Filled842	MOBILE	Alabama
MALATHI AKULA M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled809	KISSIMMEE	Florida
JORGE BARBOZA SOSA M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled767	EAGLE PASS	Texas
BRUCE PENDLEY MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled762	EAST RIDGE	Tennessee
CHRISTOPHER LABONTE MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled752	SAINT LOUIS	Missouri
LEONARD ELLISON MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled750	SOUTHFIELD	Michigan
VEN CHIANG MD Nephrology	Claims Filled735	VALDOSTA	Georgia
LYNN LEE M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled728	VALDOSTA	Georgia
JEAN SUMNER M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled722	SANDERSVILLE	Georgia
DANA NASH M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled709	MEMPHIS	Tennessee