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VELCADE

BORTEZOMIB

At a Glance: This Drug in 2014

2,473
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 1785 of 3362

$13.7M
Retail Cost

Rank: 751 of 3362

491
Patients

Rank: 1904 of 3362

319
Prescribers

Rank: 1979 of 3362

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

1,351

2011

2,033

2012

2,288

2013

2,473

2014

2,514

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$6.78M

2011

$10.7M

2012

$13.2M

2013

$13.7M

2014

$14.7M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$1,503

2011

$1,734

2012

$1,610

2013

$1,514

2014

$1,704

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
New York	164	858	$4.63M
California	87	379	$2.16M
Florida	54	233	$1.4M
New Jersey	37	183	$1.15M
Tennessee	11	91	$391K
Illinois	16	84	$415K
Texas	16	74	$410K
Pennsylvania		67	$246K
Louisiana	17	60	$414K
Mississippi		50	$360K
Maryland		48	$238K
Connecticut		41	$237K
North Carolina		32	$178K
Massachusetts		27	$119K
Georgia		27	$182K
Missouri		25	$138K
Virginia		24	$144K
Indiana		18	$54.3K
Oregon		17	$24.1K
Kentucky		17	$95.1K
Ohio		17	$99.7K
Alaska		14	$82.3K
Alabama		14	$84.3K
Arizona		13	$45.4K
Washington		11	$53.3K

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 VELCADE

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
HITENDRA RAMBHIA MD Hematology Oncology	Claims Filled82	BROOKLYN	New York