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The Doctors and Drugs in Medicare Part D

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ROSUVASTATIN CALCIUM

Crestor (rosuvastatin) is a statin medication that changes the amount of cholesterol your body makes. It lowers "bad" cholesterol (LDL) and improves your "good" cholesterol (HDL) levels. Source: Iodine

At a Glance: This Drug in 2016

6.01M
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 55 of 3393

$2.32B
Retail Cost

Rank: 5 of 3393

1,560,050
Patients

Rank: 57 of 3393

249,981
Prescribers

Rank: 86 of 3393

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60%

of people say

it's worth it

47%

of people say

it worked well

15%

of people say

it's a huge hassle

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

8.62M

2012

9.07M

2013

9.07M

2014

8.71M

2015

6.01M

2016

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$1.79B

2012

$2.22B

2013

$2.54B

2014

$2.88B

2015

$2.32B

2016

Average Patient Cost

Average amount that patients paid each year.

$1,120

2012

$1,279

2013

$1,451

2014

$1,664

2015

$1,489

2016

Use by state

State Patients Claims Cost
New York 159,941 675,183 $247M
Florida 141,803 508,281 $208M
California 116,400 492,624 $180M
Texas 129,001 458,815 $189M
Pennsylvania 72,808 262,646 $99.1M
North Carolina 61,708 258,771 $90.3M
New Jersey 66,410 219,892 $97.1M
Georgia 50,772 210,878 $74.6M
Illinois 55,448 208,707 $85.8M
Ohio 49,630 174,449 $68.2M
Tennessee 39,635 154,025 $58M
Louisiana 30,702 144,803 $47.4M
Virginia 37,275 138,807 $54.3M
Kentucky 30,470 137,291 $47.1M
Missouri 29,952 131,696 $44.4M
Indiana 34,877 129,020 $50.9M
South Carolina 33,379 128,307 $46.7M
Massachusetts 32,333 113,179 $46.1M
Alabama 26,661 99,848 $39M
Michigan 35,043 98,236 $44.9M
Connecticut 28,397 92,377 $40.3M
Mississippi 18,209 87,838 $27.8M
Arizona 27,430 85,221 $39.3M
Maryland 27,016 80,615 $39M
Wisconsin 22,787 75,167 $31M
Washington 20,546 73,929 $29.6M
West Virginia 16,600 69,620 $25.8M
Iowa 14,166 63,051 $21.7M
Minnesota 18,905 62,994 $27.5M
Oklahoma 15,759 60,945 $23.2M
Colorado 16,218 54,603 $22.4M
Arkansas 11,064 54,361 $17.4M
Kansas 11,708 46,398 $16.9M
Nebraska 8,547 40,665 $13.3M
Oregon 10,590 34,086 $13.7M
Maine 8,625 28,747 $13.2M
New Hampshire 6,597 24,011 $9.77M
Nevada 6,861 22,645 $9.58M
Delaware 8,308 21,451 $11.6M
Rhode Island 4,429 20,320 $6.8M
New Mexico 6,017 20,203 $8.28M
South Dakota 4,525 19,371 $6.76M
North Dakota 4,372 18,150 $5.97M
Utah 5,483 16,531 $7.04M
Idaho 4,030 14,688 $5.83M
Montana 3,613 13,052 $4.99M
Hawaii 3,987 12,353 $5.35M
District of Columbia 3,068 10,785 $4.52M
Vermont 2,871 9,023 $4.24M
Wyoming 1,446 5,383 $2.14M
Alaska 1,055 3,950 $1.64M
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 2016 includes more than 1.5 billion prescriptions written by 1.1 million doctors, nurses and other providers. This database lists over 460,000 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 »

Incorrect Info?

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Top prescribers for CRESTOR

Provider Medicare Claims City State
HEW QUON M.D.

Internal Medicine

Claims Filled3,723

LOS ANGELES

California

GARY REZNIK MD

Cardiovascular Disease

Claims Filled2,994

LOS ANGELES

California

ARMINE NAZARYAN M.D.

Family Medicine

Claims Filled2,427

GLENDALE

California

GARBIS APELIAN MD

Family Medicine

Claims Filled2,013

VAN NUYS

California

HOMAYOUN SHARIM M.D.

Internal Medicine

Claims Filled1,702

BEVERLY HILLS

California

JAVID YADEGAR MD

Internal Medicine

Claims Filled1,694

BROOKLYN

New York

DON LEE M.D.

Interventional Cardiology

Claims Filled1,609

GLENDALE

California

MARK BARATS M.D.

Nephrology

Claims Filled1,603

WEST HOLLYWOOD

California

KLAUDIYA RUVINSKY M.D.

Internal Medicine

Claims Filled1,575

BROOKLYN

New York

NOUNEH DANIELYAN M.D.

Geriatric Medicine

Claims Filled1,512

LOS ANGELES

California

TSOVINAR TEKKELIAN M.D.

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Claims Filled1,445

GLENDALE

California

NARINE ARUTYOUNIAN M.D.

Family Medicine

Claims Filled1,429

GLENDALE

California

YANINA BELOTSERKOVSKAYA M.D.

Internal Medicine

Claims Filled1,353

BROOKLYN

New York

INNA PILDYSH DO

Internal Medicine

Claims Filled1,347

BROOKLYN

New York

OKSANA LEVITANSKY M.D.

Internal Medicine

Claims Filled1,312

BROOKLYN

New York

VARDUI ARUTYUNYAN MD

Family Medicine

Claims Filled1,309

GLENDALE

California

FARHAD GHANAAT

Geriatric Medicine

Claims Filled1,257

BROOKLYN

New York

WUHUA JING MD

Internal Medicine

Claims Filled1,251

NEW YORK

New York

AVIVA IOFEL MD

Internal Medicine

Claims Filled1,235

LOS ANGELES

California

VLAD NUSINOVICH M.D.

Internal Medicine

Claims Filled1,231

WEST HOLLYWOOD

California

ALEKSANDR ZASYPKIN MD

Internal Medicine

Claims Filled1,201

BROOKLYN

New York

MATVEY BROKHIN MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes Metabolism

Claims Filled1,193

BROOKLYN

New York

SIMA MUSTER

Internal Medicine

Claims Filled1,186

BROOKLYN

New York

ALEXANDER SHEKHTER M.D.

Internal Medicine

Claims Filled1,176

BROOKLYN

New York

BENJAMIN BENNOV MD

Internal Medicine

Claims Filled1,166

PHILADELPHIA

Pennsylvania