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VARIVAX VACCINE

VARICELLA VACCINE LIVE/PF

Varivax (Varicella Vaccine) is a live (but weaken) vaccine that protects against varicella, also known as chickenpox. Allows your body to build memory to protect against the virus, but doesn't cause an actual infection in people with a normal immune system. Source: Iodine *

*This description is for related drug Varicella vaccine

At a Glance: This Drug in 2015

1,773
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 1954 of 3395

$214K
Retail Cost

Rank: 2193 of 3395

1,439
Patients

Rank: 1594 of 3395

907
Prescribers

Rank: 1704 of 3395

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This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

632

2011

925

2012

1,357

2013

1,652

2014

1,775

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$64.6K

2011

$101K

2012

$148K

2013

$185K

2014

$214K

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$42

2011

$45

2012

$41

2013

$34

2014

$48

2015

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
Mississippi	149	286	$32.3K
California	220	238	$27K
New York	200	219	$24.7K
Texas	114	134	$15.8K
New Jersey	50	59	$7,405
Illinois	48	54	$6,712
Florida	45	53	$6,426
Massachusetts	40	46	$7,207
Georgia	36	42	$4,940
Connecticut	37	41	$4,862
North Carolina	27	31	$5,905
Minnesota	24	30	$3,544
Indiana	24	27	$3,419
Oregon	20	27	$3,188
Washington	24	26	$3,223
Ohio	21	26	$3,663
Maryland	21	25	$3,019
Arizona	19	25	$3,153
Pennsylvania	19	23	$2,814
Michigan	22	23	$2,882
Tennessee	22	23	$2,898
Rhode Island	17	22	$2,446
Colorado	18	20	$2,412
Wisconsin	18	20	$2,801
Iowa	20	20	$2,584
Missouri	17	19	$2,219
New Mexico	16	18	$2,036
Oklahoma		15	$1,770
Louisiana	11	14	$1,616
Alabama	11	12	$1,576
South Carolina		11	$1,421

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 VARIVAX VACCINE

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
L C TENNIN MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled141	CANTON	Mississippi
HENRY EDMONDSON MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled141	STARKVILLE	Mississippi
KHALIL INNABI M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled105	YONKERS	New York