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COMFORT EZ

SYRING W-NDL,DISP,INSUL,0.5 ML

At a Glance: This Drug in 2014

7,739
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 1340 of 3362

$452K
Retail Cost

Rank: 1471 of 3362

3,111
Patients

Rank: 1248 of 3362

3,013
Prescribers

Rank: 1206 of 3362

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

N/A

2011

414

2012

2,998

2013

7,739

2014

8,485

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

N/A

2011

$21K

2012

$157K

2013

$452K

2014

$540K

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

N/A

2011

$19

2012

$43

2013

$62

2014

$54

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	484	1,599	$58K
Florida	248	585	$32.4K
California	197	491	$25.9K
Texas	224	455	$33.1K
New Jersey	176	430	$19.2K
Illinois	125	402	$19.8K
Pennsylvania	149	387	$23K
Georgia	134	293	$20.6K
Michigan	99	238	$15.6K
Ohio	109	230	$15.7K
North Carolina	84	169	$14.8K
Indiana	59	146	$10K
Massachusetts	65	135	$10.4K
Tennessee	61	131	$8,994
Washington	55	130	$9,244
Kentucky	54	128	$9,210
Alabama	52	122	$7,536
Virginia	57	120	$7,936
Missouri	47	117	$9,273
Mississippi	47	116	$7,819
Arizona	48	104	$6,901
Maryland	49	102	$7,789
Oregon	40	102	$7,559
Louisiana	44	95	$6,718
South Carolina	53	92	$5,961
Oklahoma	44	87	$6,715
Iowa	34	87	$7,675
Wisconsin	34	68	$5,783
Arkansas	30	59	$4,067
Kansas	27	56	$3,919
Colorado	28	49	$3,303
Maine	13	41	$2,157
Utah	18	40	$2,661
Connecticut	18	34	$1,987
Nevada	13	34	$1,969
New Mexico	17	27	$1,674
Idaho		26	$1,564
Montana		25	$1,602
Delaware	12	25	$1,760
Rhode Island	11	25	$1,936
New Hampshire		22	$1,384
West Virginia	11	21	$1,431
South Dakota		18	$911
Wyoming		15	$1,279
Minnesota		14	$1,097
Hawaii		14	$976
District of Columbia		11	$566
Nebraska		11	$930

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 COMFORT EZ

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
JUAN RAMIREZ MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled65	HUNTINGTON PARK	California