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SUBOXONE

BUPRENORPHINE HCL/NALOXONE HCL

Suboxone (Buprenorphine / Naloxone) is a combination medicine with two parts that work together to treat opioid dependence. Buprenorphine is an opioid pain reliever (similar to morphine). Naloxone mildly counteracts the pain reliever, so it's added to prevent overuse or abuse of this medication. Source: Iodine

At a Glance: This Drug in 2015

526K
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 335 of 3395

$164M
Retail Cost

Rank: 173 of 3395

52,259
Patients

Rank: 533 of 3395

12,978
Prescribers

Rank: 741 of 3395

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Alternatives:

Bunavail Methadone Subutex Zubsolve

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

336K

2011

414K

2012

447K

2013

460K

2014

526K

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$112M

2011

$147M

2012

$150M

2013

$148M

2014

$164M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$579

2011

$667

2012

$597

2013

$642

2014

$710

2015

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
Massachusetts	3,431	45,182	$9.95M
Pennsylvania	3,438	36,894	$11M
Ohio	3,248	33,299	$8.66M
New York	3,665	30,971	$10.4M
Tennessee	3,225	29,822	$9.35M
Florida	3,718	27,877	$10.3M
Michigan	3,159	25,636	$9.47M
Kentucky	1,941	25,084	$6.37M
Texas	2,200	17,320	$6.52M
California	2,665	17,287	$6.24M
North Carolina	1,793	17,086	$5.51M
Maine	1,118	16,620	$3.3M
Alabama	1,838	14,631	$6.31M
Maryland	1,557	14,399	$4.83M
New Jersey	1,635	14,059	$4.83M
Connecticut	1,118	12,816	$3.67M
West Virginia	854	12,496	$2.19M
Louisiana	1,448	10,998	$4.88M
Indiana	1,341	10,864	$3.89M
Georgia	1,214	9,213	$3.91M
Virginia	932	7,923	$2.09M
Rhode Island	842	7,812	$2.55M
Vermont	351	7,516	$1.03M
Illinois	962	7,506	$2.44M
Washington	752	6,655	$2.28M
New Hampshire	584	6,643	$1.45M
Missouri	698	6,547	$1.96M
Wisconsin	624	6,006	$1.86M
South Carolina	753	5,454	$2.14M
Mississippi	674	5,413	$2.19M
New Mexico	482	4,298	$1.48M
Minnesota	460	3,807	$1.44M
Utah	420	3,356	$1.1M
Colorado	418	3,236	$1.25M
Oregon	392	2,974	$951K
District of Columbia	277	2,797	$1.15M
Oklahoma	336	2,449	$1.06M
Arizona	331	2,222	$673K
Arkansas	249	1,745	$632K
Nevada	229	1,530	$453K
Kansas	193	1,264	$497K
Delaware	159	1,181	$345K
Idaho	96	874	$302K
Alaska	75	780	$223K
Nebraska	87	592	$188K
Wyoming	54	451	$128K
Hawaii	65	389	$156K
Montana	46	368	$122K
Iowa	40	251	$98.7K
North Dakota	27	221	$70.4K
South Dakota	27	191	$45.6K

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 SUBOXONE

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
JAMES SULLIVAN MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled2,361	BIRMINGHAM	Alabama
EDWIN CHAPMAN M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,348	WASHINGTON	District of Columbia
RICHARD ENTEL MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled1,240	PORTLAND	Maine
EVANN HERRELL D.O. Emergency Medicine	Claims Filled1,155	SEVIERVILLE	Tennessee
MICHAEL FOX D.O. Addiction Medicine	Claims Filled1,071	LIVONIA	Michigan
ARUN GUPTA MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled989	MONROE	Michigan
PAUL SMITH DO Family Medicine	Claims Filled940	JACKSON	Kentucky
HARVEY SHIPKOVITZ M.D. Adult Medicine	Claims Filled872	PITTSBURGH	Pennsylvania
BASSAM AWWA MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled804	NEW LONDON	Connecticut
VIJAY PATEL M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled803	SPRINGFIELD	Massachusetts
MARCELO LOPEZ-CLAROS M.D. Addiction Medicine	Claims Filled786	RALEIGH	North Carolina
STEVEN SPADY D.O. Family Medicine	Claims Filled775	TAOS	New Mexico
MARK WEINER MD Addiction Medicine	Claims Filled748	ANN ARBOR	Michigan
JOHN NEWCOMB M.D. Psychiatry	Claims Filled739	SOUTH PORTLAND	Maine
MARK BUCKSBAUM MD Physical Medicine Rehabilitation	Claims Filled716	SPRINGFIELD	Missouri
DMITRY ARBUCK M.D Specialist	Claims Filled701	INDIANAPOLIS	Indiana
MICHAEL KOVAL MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled677	LIMA	Ohio
MAURICE TRIVETTE M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled657	PIKEVILLE	Kentucky
KERI MCFARLANE MD Emergency Medicine	Claims Filled652	KNOXVILLE	Tennessee
ANITA CORNETT MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled649	LONDON	Kentucky
MARK DELON LIM M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled646	NORTH BERWICK	Maine
DONALD GREELEY MD Surgery	Claims Filled645	PITTSFIELD	Massachusetts
ERIC COFFMAN D.O. Addiction Medicine	Claims Filled621	LIVONIA	Michigan
EDWARD CRUTCHFIELD M.D. Emergency Medicine	Claims Filled613	GREENEVILLE	Tennessee
BOYDE HARRISON MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled613	HALEYVILLE	Alabama