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DESVENLAFAXINE

Pristiq (Desvenlafaxine) is a serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) antidepressant. It increases serotonin and norepinephrine activity in the brain, which regulates mood. Source: Iodine *

*This description is for related drug Pristiq

At a Glance: This Drug in 2014

7,868
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 1335 of 3362

$1.34M
Retail Cost

Rank: 1297 of 3362

2,164
Patients

Rank: 1350 of 3362

2,033
Prescribers

Rank: 1342 of 3362

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48%

of people say

it's worth it

44%

of people say

it worked well

25%

of people say

it's a huge hassle

Alternatives:

Cymbalta Celexa Lexapro Prozac Paxil Wellbutrin Remeron Oleptro

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

N/A

2011

N/A

2012

1,449

2013

7,878

2014

9,903

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

N/A

2011

N/A

2012

$245K

2013

$1.34M

2014

$1.82M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

N/A

2011

N/A

2012

$99

2013

$133

2014

$123

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	298	1,278	$209K
California	186	706	$172K
Louisiana	117	385	$58.1K
Florida	135	382	$64.8K
North Carolina	107	379	$65.2K
Pennsylvania	78	334	$57.3K
Texas	111	330	$43.2K
New Jersey	91	293	$46.5K
Missouri	56	210	$34.3K
Michigan	50	193	$32.7K
Ohio	63	192	$29.4K
Wisconsin	31	169	$24.6K
Georgia	44	161	$37.3K
Connecticut	45	145	$24.4K
Indiana	37	142	$16.1K
Illinois	35	138	$21K
South Carolina	43	134	$24.8K
Maryland	37	132	$28.4K
Oregon	31	131	$28.1K
Virginia	32	129	$19.3K
Kansas	22	119	$10.9K
Tennessee	33	118	$19.8K
Colorado	26	112	$19.8K
Minnesota	26	88	$17.1K
Massachusetts	27	83	$23.2K
Oklahoma	29	77	$10.7K
Kentucky	19	75	$6,736
Mississippi	19	72	$9,544
Arkansas	17	51	$7,107
Arizona	21	47	$8,478
Nebraska	11	46	$7,176
Alabama	17	40	$8,014
Maine		38	$2,260
Washington	14	38	$7,489
Iowa	11	33	$6,856
South Dakota		31	$3,271
Delaware		28	$2,558
Nevada		24	$4,236
Idaho		23	$4,265
Hawaii		21	$5,386
New Mexico		19	$5,628
Montana		15	$2,155
West Virginia		14	$3,571
Utah		13	$1,868

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 DESVENLAFAXINE ER

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
CARLO BAYRAKDARIAN MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled105	WHITE PLAINS	New York