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BUPRENORPHINE HCL
Important Information About This Drug
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Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
At a Glance: This Drug in 2015
Medicare Part D Claims
Rank: 697 of 3395
Retail Cost
Rank: 886 of 3395
Patients
Rank: 882 of 3395
Prescribers
Rank: 983 of 3395
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56%
of people say
it's worth it
44%
of people say
it worked well
This Drug's History
Claims
The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year
26.4K
2011
39.8K
2012
57.8K
2013
77.3K
2014
90.9K
2015
Spending
The total Part D spending on this drug
each year
$6.15M
2011
$8.43M
2012
$10.7M
2013
$10.6M
2014
$11M
2015
Average Patient Cost
Average amount that patients without a low-income subsidy paid each year.
$352
2011
$345
2012
$364
2013
$319
2014
$329
2015
Use by state
| State | Patients | Claims | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 1,463 | 9,836 | $1.22M |
| California | 1,240 | 7,851 | $1.06M |
| Tennessee | 640 | 5,716 | $518K |
| Ohio | 564 | 4,348 | $406K |
| Pennsylvania | 545 | 4,192 | $482K |
| Oregon | 481 | 3,535 | $451K |
| North Carolina | 411 | 3,337 | $453K |
| Washington | 439 | 3,329 | $417K |
| Texas | 551 | 3,211 | $436K |
| Michigan | 485 | 3,006 | $444K |
| Massachusetts | 325 | 2,959 | $273K |
| New York | 405 | 2,763 | $339K |
| New Jersey | 347 | 2,599 | $329K |
| Alabama | 403 | 2,520 | $356K |
| New Hampshire | 240 | 2,159 | $300K |
| Georgia | 306 | 2,019 | $283K |
| Utah | 288 | 1,992 | $228K |
| Indiana | 258 | 1,949 | $240K |
| Virginia | 199 | 1,692 | $185K |
| Illinois | 216 | 1,542 | $169K |
| Missouri | 181 | 1,445 | $183K |
| Louisiana | 207 | 1,378 | $184K |
| Arizona | 230 | 1,365 | $144K |
| Maine | 110 | 1,313 | $114K |
| Oklahoma | 215 | 1,246 | $159K |
| Connecticut | 157 | 1,122 | $136K |
| Kentucky | 148 | 1,030 | $103K |
| Idaho | 116 | 958 | $142K |
| Maryland | 149 | 954 | $124K |
| South Carolina | 135 | 944 | $124K |
| Vermont | 45 | 849 | $56.9K |
| Mississippi | 116 | 786 | $127K |
| Colorado | 119 | 740 | $91.7K |
| Hawaii | 105 | 666 | $111K |
| Wisconsin | 90 | 582 | $63.6K |
| Minnesota | 97 | 567 | $73.7K |
| Rhode Island | 69 | 561 | $80.1K |
| New Mexico | 83 | 507 | $52.9K |
| Kansas | 77 | 503 | $75.3K |
| Nevada | 93 | 501 | $53.5K |
| West Virginia | 51 | 413 | $33.5K |
| Arkansas | 64 | 397 | $58.1K |
| Alaska | 49 | 322 | $29.9K |
| Wyoming | 37 | 253 | $25.4K |
| Montana | 45 | 246 | $23.2K |
| Nebraska | 30 | 198 | $21.5K |
| South Dakota | 18 | 135 | $13K |
| District of Columbia | 20 | 109 | $15.4K |
| Iowa | 31 | $3,748 | |
| North Dakota | 25 | $1,833 | |
| Delaware | 25 | $2,635 |
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 BUPRENORPHINE HCL
| Provider | Medicare Claims | City | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| LORN MILLER MD |
Claims Filled571 |
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| PASCUAL HERRERA M.D. |
Claims Filled552 |
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| THOMAS RAULERSON MD |
Claims Filled494 |
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| CHARLES MISJA M.D. |
Claims Filled379 |
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| MARK WEINER MD |
Claims Filled375 |
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| JAMES SULLIVAN MD |
Claims Filled344 |
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| HERBERT MALINOFF MD |
Claims Filled312 |
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| DMITRY ARBUCK M.D |
Claims Filled309 |
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| TRACY GOEN M.D. |
Claims Filled273 |
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| RAMESH VEMURI M.D. |
Claims Filled245 |
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| MACK HICKS MD |
Claims Filled241 |
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| GEORGE HALSTEAD M.D. |
Claims Filled227 |
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| GORDON MILLER M.D. |
Claims Filled218 |
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| CHARLES HERRIN M.D. |
Claims Filled207 |
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| JAMES MORRIS MD |
Claims Filled206 |
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| STUART FINKELSTEIN MD |
Claims Filled199 |
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| MICHAEL BROWN M.D. |
Claims Filled198 |
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| CHRISTOPHER JUSTIS MD |
Claims Filled196 |
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| JONATHAN REITMAN M.D. |
Claims Filled191 |
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| GEORGE SCONTSAS MD |
Claims Filled185 |
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| JOHN EPLING M.D. |
Claims Filled185 |
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| GREG THOMPSON M.D. |
Claims Filled184 |
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| LEWIS BRODSKY M.D. |
Claims Filled181 |
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| GREGORY RUDOLF MD |
Claims Filled180 |
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| NICHOLAS GIDEONSE MD |
Claims Filled176 |