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ELMIRON
PENTOSAN POLYSULFATE SODIUM
At a Glance: This Drug in 2015
Medicare Part D Claims
Rank: 650 of 3395
Retail Cost
Rank: 305 of 3395
Patients
Rank: 704 of 3395
Prescribers
Rank: 688 of 3395
This Drug's History
Claims
The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year
95K
2011
102K
2012
113K
2013
114K
2014
112K
2015
Spending
The total Part D spending on this drug
each year
$41.5M
2011
$52.7M
2012
$69.4M
2013
$78.8M
2014
$85.1M
2015
Average Patient Cost
Average amount that patients without a low-income subsidy paid each year.
$412
2011
$469
2012
$479
2013
$513
2014
$577
2015
Use by state
| State | Patients | Claims | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 3,094 | 13,516 | $11.3M |
| Florida | 1,873 | 7,429 | $5.76M |
| Texas | 1,447 | 6,072 | $4.6M |
| Pennsylvania | 1,254 | 5,951 | $4.29M |
| New York | 1,217 | 5,191 | $4.01M |
| Georgia | 972 | 4,732 | $3.51M |
| North Carolina | 953 | 4,456 | $3.34M |
| Ohio | 896 | 4,154 | $3.27M |
| Michigan | 967 | 4,076 | $3.59M |
| Tennessee | 807 | 3,860 | $3.06M |
| Illinois | 727 | 3,709 | $2.71M |
| South Carolina | 725 | 3,389 | $2.54M |
| Missouri | 586 | 3,101 | $2.12M |
| Kentucky | 570 | 2,810 | $2.03M |
| Massachusetts | 536 | 2,731 | $2.09M |
| Indiana | 556 | 2,612 | $2.11M |
| Louisiana | 449 | 2,323 | $1.62M |
| New Jersey | 571 | 2,274 | $1.94M |
| Colorado | 471 | 2,089 | $1.61M |
| Wisconsin | 391 | 2,057 | $1.5M |
| Arizona | 462 | 1,776 | $1.4M |
| Alabama | 349 | 1,693 | $1.11M |
| Mississippi | 322 | 1,603 | $971K |
| Oklahoma | 358 | 1,578 | $1.25M |
| Virginia | 341 | 1,533 | $1.14M |
| Kansas | 269 | 1,486 | $930K |
| Washington | 280 | 1,292 | $935K |
| West Virginia | 231 | 1,249 | $837K |
| Maryland | 335 | 1,232 | $1.05M |
| Oregon | 250 | 1,190 | $967K |
| Iowa | 175 | 1,108 | $675K |
| Connecticut | 216 | 1,102 | $896K |
| Arkansas | 217 | 1,045 | $679K |
| Minnesota | 195 | 931 | $644K |
| Nevada | 182 | 793 | $624K |
| Maine | 145 | 694 | $515K |
| Nebraska | 102 | 571 | $333K |
| Utah | 98 | 446 | $295K |
| New Mexico | 107 | 436 | $314K |
| South Dakota | 81 | 420 | $256K |
| Idaho | 89 | 404 | $313K |
| Delaware | 72 | 322 | $240K |
| North Dakota | 48 | 261 | $164K |
| Vermont | 52 | 249 | $189K |
| Hawaii | 54 | 221 | $187K |
| Rhode Island | 44 | 221 | $144K |
| New Hampshire | 49 | 214 | $167K |
| Montana | 39 | 212 | $145K |
| Wyoming | 30 | 164 | $91.8K |
| District of Columbia | 20 | 55 | $51.9K |
| Alaska | 16 | 47 | $29.9K |
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 ELMIRON
| Provider | Medicare Claims | City | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHARLES PARSONS M.D. |
Claims Filled767 |
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| ROBERT EVANS MD |
Claims Filled547 |
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| WILLIAM KERFOOT MD |
Claims Filled532 |
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| MARK SAMBERG MD |
Claims Filled340 |
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| BRANDI KNIGHT FNP |
Claims Filled327 |
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| EDWARD DAVIS MD |
Claims Filled255 |
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| JEFFREY PROCTOR M.D. |
Claims Filled253 |
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| RONALD CHEE-AWAI MD |
Claims Filled234 |
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| MICHAEL ENGLAND MD |
Claims Filled230 |
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| HEATHER GOTTLIEB D.O. |
Claims Filled224 |
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| GITA SINGH MD |
Claims Filled215 |
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| ROBERT ECHENBERG MD |
Claims Filled213 |
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| DOUGLAS VANDRIE M.D. |
Claims Filled203 |
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| FRED SHESSEL M.D. |
Claims Filled201 |
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| MONISHA CRISELL MD |
Claims Filled186 |
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| THOMAS SCHOBORG M.D. |
Claims Filled182 |
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| PRABHAKARA SOMAYAJI M.D. |
Claims Filled172 |
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| KARAN SINGH M.D. |
Claims Filled171 |
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| THOMAS DOLNICEK MD |
Claims Filled169 |
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| ALEX CHILDS M.D. |
Claims Filled166 |
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| JERRY BENZL MD |
Claims Filled159 |
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| BRUCE KAHN M.D. |
Claims Filled158 |
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| THOMAS KOWALKOWSKI MD |
Claims Filled145 |
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| ALLEN FUTRAL M.D. |
Claims Filled140 |
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| TERESA BEAM M.D. |
Claims Filled140 |