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LITHIUM CARBONATE

Lithium is used to treat and prevent episodes of mania (frenzied, abnormally excited mood) in people with bipolar disorder (manic-depressive disorder; a disease that causes episodes of depression, episodes of mania, and other abnormal moods). Source: National Library of Medicine

At a Glance: This Drug in 2015

957K
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 245 of 3395

$7.87M
Retail Cost

Rank: 1000 of 3395

132,685
Patients

Rank: 370 of 3395

68,363
Prescribers

Rank: 336 of 3395

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Alternatives:

Lamictal Tegretol Topamax

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

959K

2011

891K

2012

929K

2013

947K

2014

957K

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$12M

2011

$9.08M

2012

$8.97M

2013

$8.42M

2014

$7.87M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$33

2011

$31

2012

$30

2013

$30

2014

$29

2015

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
California	13,998	94,704	$910K
New York	9,817	70,425	$559K
Pennsylvania	7,740	56,448	$453K
Florida	8,326	49,016	$437K
Texas	8,100	48,119	$382K
Ohio	5,857	44,490	$358K
Illinois	4,667	37,443	$303K
Massachusetts	4,976	36,224	$306K
Michigan	4,608	29,590	$245K
Missouri	3,758	28,024	$208K
North Carolina	4,320	27,613	$237K
Virginia	3,557	24,079	$206K
New Jersey	3,254	23,779	$192K
Washington	3,307	22,097	$183K
Tennessee	3,435	20,648	$156K
Maryland	2,859	19,437	$162K
Georgia	3,058	19,145	$140K
Wisconsin	2,441	17,925	$144K
Indiana	2,564	17,284	$152K
Louisiana	2,342	15,947	$121K
Kentucky	2,239	14,804	$120K
Alabama	2,390	14,735	$109K
Connecticut	2,045	14,731	$114K
Arizona	2,284	13,738	$111K
Oregon	2,135	13,606	$118K
Minnesota	1,928	13,425	$109K
Colorado	2,056	13,390	$120K
Arkansas	1,952	12,457	$93.6K
South Carolina	1,856	11,662	$97.4K
Iowa	1,473	11,273	$74.2K
Oklahoma	1,569	10,876	$78.1K
Kansas	1,349	9,343	$76.1K
Mississippi	1,336	8,606	$62.8K
Maine	1,176	7,667	$69.4K
Nebraska	953	7,186	$51.3K
West Virginia	1,156	7,118	$51.9K
New Hampshire	915	6,525	$51.7K
Utah	953	6,495	$48.6K
Rhode Island	823	6,218	$53.2K
New Mexico	1,012	5,644	$39.8K
Idaho	908	5,281	$39.3K
South Dakota	423	3,798	$25.7K
Nevada	727	3,713	$32.7K
Montana	527	3,433	$25.2K
Vermont	454	2,826	$23.7K
Delaware	412	2,559	$20.6K
North Dakota	295	2,151	$16K
Hawaii	329	2,048	$18.8K
District of Columbia	332	1,460	$13.8K
Alaska	162	1,177	$7,547
Wyoming	179	1,069	$9,467

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 2015 includes more than 1.4 billion prescriptions written by nearly 1.4 million doctors, nurses and other providers. This database lists about 447,000 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 »

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Top prescribers for LITHIUM CARBONATE

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
ROBERT MORTON MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled906	ADA	Oklahoma
JOSE RODRIGUEZ CAY M.D. Psychiatry	Claims Filled871	CAGUAS	Puerto Rico
SHEPHALI PATEL M.D. Psychiatry	Claims Filled859	CHICAGO	Illinois
MARK SLAVEN MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled847	ONEIDA	New York
IKECHUKWU OHIAERI M.D. Psychiatry	Claims Filled836	VICTORVILLE	California
DOUGLAS BEY M.D. Psychiatry	Claims Filled806	NORMAL	Illinois
MILLA KAREV MD Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled703	CINCINNATI	Ohio
MOHD MALIK M.D. Psychiatry	Claims Filled600	SAINT LOUIS	Missouri
ERIC BARNES D.O. Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled578	COLUMBIA	Missouri
VIVIAN ACEVEDO MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled571	BAYAMON	Puerto Rico
MICHAEL AHEARN MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled528	KEWANEE	Illinois
MARY GALONSKI MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled527	KITTANNING	Pennsylvania
LIAN SOUNG M.D.	Claims Filled502	STOCKTON	California
WILLIAM GILLESPIE M.D. Psychiatry	Claims Filled443	GLENDORA	California
FRANCISCO PARRA MD Addiction Psychiatry	Claims Filled443	MANATI	Puerto Rico
MARCO RODRIGUEZ APONTE MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled427	PONCE	Puerto Rico
JOSE GAMBOA MD Child Adolescent Psychiatry	Claims Filled424	ANAHEIM	California
PHILLIP ROWDEN M.D. Psychiatry	Claims Filled420	OLLA	Louisiana
JOSEPH COOK MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled416	AMERICAN FORK	Utah
ROBERT FRANKLE M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled408	RIVERWOODS	Illinois
MEREDITH FINE MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled406	SEATTLE	Washington
PAUL GROSS MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled388	ALLENTOWN	Pennsylvania
MELVIN GALE M.D. Psychiatry	Claims Filled386	CINCINNATI	Ohio
WAYNE PAULEKAS MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled385	WETHERSFIELD	Connecticut
MARLO KIRBY MSN, NP Nurse Practitioner	Claims Filled382	MARSHALL	Michigan