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BUTALBITAL COMPOUND-CODEINE

CODEINE/BUTALBITAL/ASA/CAFFEIN

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Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

At a Glance: This Drug in 2014

36.6K
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 900 of 3362

$4.23M
Retail Cost

Rank: 1044 of 3362

8,171
Patients

Rank: 976 of 3362

8,819
Prescribers

Rank: 846 of 3362

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This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

45.3K

2011

53.1K

2012

44.2K

2013

36.6K

2014

34.3K

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$3.06M

2011

$3.83M

2012

$2.71M

2013

$4.23M

2014

$4.79M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$83

2011

$121

2012

$102

2013

$120

2014

$159

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	1,187	4,894	$587K
Texas	633	2,468	$280K
Florida	622	2,401	$263K
Michigan	505	2,126	$280K
Pennsylvania	328	1,748	$202K
Illinois	341	1,552	$148K
Ohio	292	1,428	$174K
Georgia	299	1,361	$141K
North Carolina	233	1,051	$130K
Arizona	259	1,030	$113K
Virginia	205	986	$114K
Missouri	189	947	$120K
New Jersey	210	900	$103K
Colorado	160	874	$98.8K
Washington	166	846	$92.9K
Kentucky	159	842	$102K
New York	225	837	$123K
Oregon	146	752	$91.9K
Tennessee	168	738	$81.5K
Louisiana	167	688	$58K
Oklahoma	134	661	$88.6K
Alabama	159	641	$62.7K
Indiana	129	634	$72.6K
Minnesota	110	632	$76.8K
South Carolina	116	578	$60.8K
Maryland	111	429	$47.7K
Arkansas	85	411	$53.9K
Mississippi	93	385	$42.1K
Wisconsin	82	382	$34K
West Virginia	60	322	$43.6K
Delaware	49	270	$27.4K
Kansas	52	263	$34.2K
Nevada	88	248	$29.8K
Utah	71	243	$31K
Nebraska	42	214	$26.3K
Maine	41	196	$15.7K
New Mexico	56	195	$17.5K
Connecticut	51	185	$14.4K
Iowa	44	181	$24.9K
Idaho	38	179	$23.7K
Massachusetts	50	138	$14.6K
New Hampshire	29	131	$7,448
South Dakota	21	114	$13K
Montana	23	113	$18.8K
Hawaii	19	75	$8,861
District of Columbia	11	64	$4,976
Rhode Island	12	62	$6,238
Wyoming	11	60	$6,839
Vermont		37	$1,693
North Dakota		37	$2,474
Alaska		34	$5,080

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 BUTALBITAL COMPOUND-CODEINE

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
SUBHASH RAO MD	Claims Filled104	DOWNERS GROVE	Illinois
WILLIAM RANDALL MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled59	KETTERING	Ohio
WILLIAM MILROTH M.D. General Practice	Claims Filled128	MC CONNELLSBURG	Pennsylvania
XIULU RUAN MD Specialist	Claims Filled53	MOBILE	Alabama
ANTONIO PERALTA MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled146	RICHLANDS	Virginia