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METHOTREXATE SODIUM

METHOTREXATE SODIUM/PF

Otrexup (Methotrexate) is an anti-cancer and immunosuppressive medication that treats forms of cancer, arthritis, and psoriasis. For cancer, it helps your body destroy cancer cells by blocking building blocks that cancer cells need to grow. For rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis, it lowers the body's normal immune response and prevents the body from attacking itself. Source: Iodine *

*This description is for related drug Methotrexate

At a Glance: This Drug in 2015

45.3K
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 851 of 3395

$660K
Retail Cost

Rank: 1822 of 3395

14,871
Patients

Rank: 820 of 3395

5,840
Prescribers

Rank: 999 of 3395

More info on related drug Methotrexate »

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This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

21.1K

2011

6,209

2012

20.7K

2013

33.9K

2014

45.3K

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$353K

2011

$95.4K

2012

$317K

2013

$520K

2014

$660K

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$19

2011

$13

2012

$18

2013

$27

2014

$29

2015

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
Texas	1,391	3,829	$49.6K
Florida	1,401	3,656	$56K
California	815	2,497	$38.4K
New York	627	2,075	$28.8K
Pennsylvania	548	1,752	$26.3K
North Carolina	537	1,653	$22.5K
Ohio	477	1,580	$25.5K
Michigan	518	1,483	$23.2K
Tennessee	489	1,462	$20K
Alabama	503	1,443	$16.7K
Georgia	487	1,404	$18.6K
Illinois	425	1,383	$19.8K
Massachusetts	380	1,348	$21.1K
Missouri	393	1,265	$18K
South Carolina	425	1,183	$17.7K
Arizona	388	1,130	$16.9K
Wisconsin	273	1,029	$16.1K
Indiana	355	993	$15.5K
Louisiana	331	964	$13.4K
Washington	302	829	$14.8K
Minnesota	241	815	$12.9K
New Jersey	285	806	$14.2K
Oklahoma	265	790	$11K
Oregon	224	754	$9,902
Virginia	273	745	$13.4K
Kentucky	202	734	$10.3K
Colorado	207	593	$9,405
Arkansas	176	581	$8,043
Kansas	161	525	$7,108
Maryland	140	449	$6,610
Iowa	130	447	$6,506
Connecticut	165	412	$6,829
Mississippi	151	410	$5,197
Idaho	121	360	$4,869
Nebraska	99	325	$4,978
Utah	114	318	$3,964
New Mexico	107	289	$4,657
Maine	90	259	$4,173
South Dakota	69	255	$3,290
West Virginia	78	252	$3,308
Montana	75	238	$3,098
New Hampshire	78	230	$3,476
North Dakota	69	211	$3,908
Nevada	82	201	$2,819
Rhode Island	51	186	$3,106
Vermont	20	70	$1,154
Delaware	22	70	$1,201
Wyoming		37	$527
District of Columbia	14	37	$409
Alaska		21	$492

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 METHOTREXATE SODIUM

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
JORGE ZAMORA-QUEZADA M.D. Rheumatology	Claims Filled159	EDINBURG	Texas
EDMUND LACOUR M.D. Rheumatology	Claims Filled147	DOTHAN	Alabama
HARRIS WEAVER MD Rheumatology	Claims Filled146	MIDLAND	Michigan
ROXABELLA TORRES MD Rheumatology	Claims Filled141	SAN JUAN	Puerto Rico
MATTHEW AXELROD MD Rheumatology	Claims Filled128	BURLINGTON	Massachusetts
ZE'EV WEITZ M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled118	DUANESBURG	New York
THOMAS LEAHEY D.O. Rheumatology	Claims Filled117	ARDMORE	Oklahoma
WILLIAM SULLIVAN MD Rheumatology	Claims Filled114	FAIRHOPE	Alabama
VICTORIA KATZ MD Rheumatology	Claims Filled108	BROOKLYN	New York
ELIZABETH PERKINS MD Rheumatology	Claims Filled108	HOOVER	Alabama
DAVID MANDEL M.D. Rheumatology	Claims Filled108	MAYFIELD VILLAGE	Ohio
SALMAN AHMAD MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled103	LUBBOCK	Texas
CHARLES GALEA M.D. Rheumatology	Claims Filled101	WAYCROSS	Georgia
ALEXANDER BROWN MD Rheumatology	Claims Filled101	LEXINGTON	Kentucky
ANTHONY ANDERSON MD Rheumatology	Claims Filled98	GREENSBORO	North Carolina
JITENDRA VASANDANI MD Rheumatology	Claims Filled95	LUBBOCK	Texas
ANN WARNER M.D. Rheumatology	Claims Filled90	KANSAS CITY	Missouri
JAMES LIPSTATE M.D. Rheumatology	Claims Filled85	LAFAYETTE	Louisiana
JOHN CONTE M.D. Specialist	Claims Filled84	PAWTUCKET	Rhode Island
SAILAJA MANNE MD Rheumatology	Claims Filled84	SAN ANTONIO	Texas
WILLIAM BRELSFORD MD, FACP, FACR Rheumatology	Claims Filled81	TYLER	Texas
HIMABINDU REDDY MD Rheumatology	Claims Filled80	FORT WORTH	Texas
ULKER TOK M.D. Rheumatology	Claims Filled79	TUCSON	Arizona
GULZAR MERCHANT M.D. Rheumatology	Claims Filled78	GREENVILLE	South Carolina
DAVID GREENFIELD MD Rheumatology	Claims Filled76	VENICE	Florida