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DUTOPROL

METOPROLOL SUCCINATE/HCTZ

Dutoprol (Metoprolol Succinate / Hydrochlorothiazide) is a combination medicine that helps control your blood pressure and reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke. Hydrochlorothiazide is a diuretic that removes extra water from your body. Metoprolol is a beta blocker that lowers your heart rate. Source: Iodine *

*This description is for related drug Metoprolol succinate/Hydrochlorothiazide

At a Glance: This Drug in 2014

3,462
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 1653 of 3362

$190K
Retail Cost

Rank: 1879 of 3362

1,004
Patients

Rank: 1663 of 3362

1,009
Prescribers

Rank: 1638 of 3362

More info on related drug Metoprolol succinate/Hydrochlorothiazide »

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This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

N/A

2011

830

2012

2,806

2013

3,462

2014

1,936

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

N/A

2011

$20.2K

2012

$73.5K

2013

$190K

2014

$409K

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

N/A

2011

$48

2012

$71

2013

$112

2014

$222

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	114	321	$14.9K
New York	70	245	$16.8K
Texas	83	245	$11.7K
North Carolina	41	216	$9,859
Pennsylvania	54	212	$11.3K
Ohio	52	178	$11.3K
Michigan	58	175	$14.4K
South Carolina	33	173	$7,077
California	56	162	$7,646
New Jersey	54	157	$10.6K
Georgia	34	141	$5,843
Illinois	30	124	$8,408
Alabama	26	117	$4,811
Louisiana	29	101	$5,816
Missouri	22	90	$4,973
Kentucky	19	80	$3,672
Virginia	29	78	$3,989
Indiana	26	65	$4,316
Arizona	18	62	$2,857
Maryland	16	54	$3,215
Tennessee	14	46	$2,678
Wisconsin		44	$1,571
Arkansas	13	43	$1,796
Massachusetts	14	31	$1,776
Connecticut		29	$1,168
Oklahoma		28	$1,683
Oregon		26	$1,104
Mississippi		23	$635
West Virginia		21	$945
Delaware		18	$2,334
Iowa		17	$1,540
North Dakota		15	$510
South Dakota		15	$1,147
Kansas		12	$1,239
Nevada		11	$1,224

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 DUTOPROL

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
CARLOS CANOVA-DIAZ M.D Internal Medicine	Claims Filled51	MIAMI	Florida