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LOPRESSOR

METOPROLOL TARTRATE

Lopressor (metoprolol tartrate) is a beta blocker. It lowers blood pressure by slowing your heart rate, relaxing blood vessels, and lowering the body's fight-or-flight response. Source: Iodine

At a Glance: This Drug in 2015

960
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 2146 of 3395

$157K
Retail Cost

Rank: 2266 of 3395

343
Patients

Rank: 2128 of 3395

353
Prescribers

Rank: 2071 of 3395

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62%

of people say

it's worth it

47%

of people say

it worked well

15%

of people say

it's a huge hassle

Alternatives:

metoprolol succinate Tenormin Coreg Propranolol Bystolic

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

16.1K

2011

11K

2012

1,292

2013

352

2014

960

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$2.22M

2011

$1.63M

2012

$138K

2013

$45.6K

2014

$157K

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$326

2011

$286

2012

$131

2013

$102

2014

$160

2015

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
South Carolina	40	172	$19.2K
New York	41	101	$20.3K
Florida	39	95	$14.3K
New Jersey	30	77	$21.7K
Ohio	18	59	$7,535
Illinois	16	58	$8,249
Pennsylvania	21	52	$7,394
Michigan	22	51	$10K
California	20	46	$9,173
Texas	11	32	$3,898
Virginia		23	$5,760
Massachusetts		18	$4,287
Wisconsin	12	18	$1,545
Indiana		15	$1,601
Louisiana		14	$2,768
North Carolina		13	$2,460
Iowa		12	$1,325
Oklahoma		12	$1,164
Georgia		12	$1,133

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 LOPRESSOR

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
BRIAN HEASTER MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled61	DARLINGTON	South Carolina
ALEXANDER COHEN MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled61	DARLINGTON	South Carolina