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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 2014

77.3K
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 718 of 3362

$10.6M
Retail Cost

Rank: 803 of 3362

10,809
Patients

Rank: 904 of 3362

5,440
Prescribers

Rank: 1013 of 3362

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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

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
Florida	1,345	8,063	$1.19M
California	1,030	6,489	$1.01M
Tennessee	630	5,939	$566K
Pennsylvania	475	3,552	$502K
Ohio	437	3,325	$395K
Michigan	489	2,978	$501K
Massachusetts	316	2,972	$294K
Texas	505	2,874	$401K
Oregon	420	2,859	$414K
Washington	354	2,612	$358K
North Carolina	302	2,439	$347K
New York	382	2,275	$344K
New Jersey	293	2,071	$298K
New Hampshire	225	1,915	$289K
Indiana	258	1,728	$263K
Alabama	372	1,677	$239K
Virginia	167	1,562	$173K
Georgia	251	1,535	$256K
Utah	228	1,469	$217K
Oklahoma	193	1,251	$173K
Kentucky	155	1,221	$148K
Maine	120	1,153	$108K
Illinois	187	1,134	$141K
Arizona	190	1,056	$137K
Vermont	47	1,017	$77.6K
Missouri	158	1,012	$157K
Louisiana	162	1,004	$152K
Maryland	152	897	$140K
Connecticut	124	863	$132K
Idaho	100	800	$140K
South Carolina	128	782	$109K
Colorado	121	716	$106K
Mississippi	125	712	$106K
Wisconsin	92	619	$71.5K
Hawaii	81	541	$105K
Rhode Island	69	509	$75.1K
Minnesota	88	508	$75.3K
Nevada	103	434	$57.6K
Kansas	100	417	$72.4K
Arkansas	60	354	$56.1K
New Mexico	56	337	$40.7K
West Virginia	50	331	$31.6K
Alaska	44	311	$37.3K
Montana	40	259	$34K
Wyoming	29	206	$23.8K
District of Columbia	17	133	$16.9K
Nebraska	24	133	$13.7K
South Dakota	16	87	$9,594
Iowa		59	$7,856
Delaware		17	$2,552

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 BUPRENORPHINE HCL

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
MARK WEINER MD Addiction Medicine	Claims Filled438	YPSILANTI	Michigan
THOMAS RAULERSON MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled401	GAINESVILLE	Florida
JAMES SULLIVAN MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled375	BIRMINGHAM	Alabama
HERBERT MALINOFF MD Medical Oncology	Claims Filled366	ANN ARBOR	Michigan
CHARLES HERRIN M.D. Addiction Medicine	Claims Filled278	KINGSPORT	Tennessee
LORN MILLER MD Neurology	Claims Filled275	JASPER	Alabama
DMITRY ARBUCK M.D Specialist	Claims Filled236	INDIANAPOLIS	Indiana
CLAUDE CURRAN M.D. Psychiatry	Claims Filled230	FALL RIVER	Massachusetts
GEORGE SCONTSAS MD Neurology	Claims Filled219	WILMINGTON	North Carolina
PETER ERHARDT MD Emergency Medicine	Claims Filled193	SPRINGFIELD	Ohio
STUART FINKELSTEIN MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled191	LAKEWOOD	California
BRUCE DURELL M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled185	INDIANAPOLIS	Indiana
GRACIELA GALLARDO MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled185	OKLAHOMA CITY	Oklahoma
TRACY GOEN M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled184	JOHNSON CITY	Tennessee
JONATHAN DAITCH MD Pain Medicine	Claims Filled183	FORT MYERS	Florida
MICHAEL BROWN M.D. Adult Medicine	Claims Filled182	DES MOINES	Washington
DOUGLAS WILLIAMS MD Neurology	Claims Filled182	BRISTOL	Tennessee
GREGORY RUDOLF MD Addiction Medicine	Claims Filled180	SEATTLE	Washington
DAVID ALLINGHAM M.D. Personal Emergency Response Attendant	Claims Filled179	OAKTON	Virginia
TONY YOST MD Emergency Medicine	Claims Filled173	JOHNSON CITY	Tennessee
ROBERT RUST M.D. Addiction Medicine	Claims Filled172	SANDPOINT	Idaho
MATTHEW GANGWER M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled169	BRISTOL	Tennessee
SRINIVAS ERRAGOLLA M.D Pain Medicine	Claims Filled169	MILWAUKEE	Wisconsin
MICHAEL MILLER M.D. Addiction Medicine	Claims Filled168	NASHVILLE	Tennessee
MICHAEL FREY MD Interventional Pain Medicine	Claims Filled167	FORT MYERS	Florida