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CLINDAMYCIN HCL

Clindamycin is used to treat certain types of bacterial infections, including infections of the lungs, skin, blood, female reproductive organs, and internal organs. Source: National Library of Medicine

At a Glance: This Drug in 2014

2.03M
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 150 of 3362

$21M
Retail Cost

Rank: 638 of 3362

1,474,982
Patients

Rank: 54 of 3362

430,995
Prescribers

Rank: 18 of 3362

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This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

1.42M

2011

1.59M

2012

1.86M

2013

2.03M

2014

2.2M

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$22.7M

2011

$22.8M

2012

$23.5M

2013

$21M

2014

$19.6M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

2011

2012

2013

2014

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	127,357	165,891	$2.19M
Texas	115,019	151,938	$1.71M
Florida	101,543	135,415	$1.19M
New York	90,700	123,241	$1.15M
Pennsylvania	70,508	99,822	$963K
Michigan	63,756	87,933	$852K
Ohio	62,539	87,822	$956K
Illinois	59,294	82,188	$827K
North Carolina	53,560	72,601	$742K
Tennessee	43,185	57,889	$590K
Georgia	41,666	55,022	$572K
New Jersey	37,865	51,098	$459K
Missouri	33,664	45,897	$486K
Alabama	32,165	43,056	$419K
Wisconsin	29,922	42,728	$438K
Indiana	29,848	42,007	$448K
Arizona	31,278	40,459	$423K
Virginia	27,528	37,223	$384K
Louisiana	27,876	36,756	$383K
Massachusetts	27,229	36,509	$352K
Minnesota	23,987	33,949	$337K
Washington	24,057	31,753	$344K
Kentucky	23,758	31,538	$355K
South Carolina	23,711	31,527	$287K
Mississippi	22,947	30,466	$332K
Colorado	20,341	27,246	$299K
Maryland	19,743	26,449	$288K
Oregon	19,265	25,545	$308K
Oklahoma	19,003	25,394	$268K
Arkansas	18,962	25,076	$258K
Iowa	16,175	24,080	$196K
Kansas	14,604	20,487	$204K
West Virginia	12,522	16,865	$180K
Connecticut	12,612	16,860	$149K
Nevada	11,639	14,928	$157K
Nebraska	9,538	13,978	$122K
New Mexico	9,215	11,952	$140K
Utah	7,321	9,566	$111K
Maine	6,315	8,830	$89.3K
Hawaii	6,504	8,401	$113K
Idaho	5,605	7,367	$77.1K
New Hampshire	5,254	7,205	$67.8K
Delaware	4,973	6,695	$70.5K
South Dakota	4,334	6,481	$57.5K
Montana	4,407	5,898	$57.3K
Rhode Island	4,363	5,834	$54.1K
North Dakota	3,784	5,426	$45.5K
Vermont	2,786	3,964	$36.2K
Wyoming	2,400	3,298	$32.5K
District of Columbia	2,282	2,874	$37K
Alaska	1,496	1,975	$25.2K

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 CLINDAMYCIN HCL

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
JAMES SHEPLER III Dentist	Claims Filled177	KETTERING	Ohio
YADRANKO DUCIC MD Otolaryngology	Claims Filled175	FORT WORTH	Texas
JOHN CHUNG MD Dermatology	Claims Filled174	DALTON	Georgia
ANTHONY WROBLESKY DDS Dentist	Claims Filled171	CONNEAUT	Ohio
JOHN CHOI DDS Dentist, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery	Claims Filled170	REDLANDS	California
CARROLL HUGHES DDS Dentist, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery	Claims Filled168	BAKERSFIELD	California
ROBERT RICKARDS DMD Dentist, General Practice	Claims Filled167	MILLTOWN	New Jersey
MELVYN HUCKABY DDS Dentist, General Practice	Claims Filled167	HOUSTON	Texas
GERALD JERRY MD Orthopaedic Surgery	Claims Filled165	PORT HURON	Michigan
SUMNER CULLOM M.D. General Practice	Claims Filled163	LEPANTO	Arkansas
JOSEPH RICCIARDI D.M.D Dentist, General Practice	Claims Filled163	AVENEL	New Jersey
BARRY WEBER D.M.D Dentist	Claims Filled163	SPRING HILL	Florida
MATTHEW AUSTIN M.D. Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery	Claims Filled163	PHILADELPHIA	Pennsylvania
CARLOS SOTO-VILLARRUBIA M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled162	AGUADA	Puerto Rico
MOHAMED ASWAD MD Hematology Oncology	Claims Filled162	DEMING	New Mexico
ISABEL GARCIA DMD Dentist, General Practice	Claims Filled161	CAROLINA	Puerto Rico
ROBERT SCHAEDEL DMD MD Dentist, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery	Claims Filled161	SOUTH PORTLAND	Maine
CHARLES BESAW DDS Dentist, General Practice	Claims Filled161	ESSEXVILLE	Michigan
WALTER FRUEH MD Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery	Claims Filled159	WILMINGTON	North Carolina
MICHAEL AHEARN MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled159	KEWANEE	Illinois
THOMAS POWELL MD	Claims Filled158	SMITHFIELD	North Carolina
GRETEL VALLEDOR-ROMERO D.M.D Dentist, General Practice	Claims Filled157	HIALEAH	Florida
SPENCER SAINT-CYR DMD Dentist, Endodontics	Claims Filled156	NORTHFIELD	New Jersey
JUAN BADO D.M.D. Dentist, General Practice	Claims Filled156	MAYAGUEZ	Puerto Rico
NEILA ACOSTA 2234 Dentist	Claims Filled154	CAROLINA	Puerto Rico