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LAMOTRIGINE

Treats certain types of seizures and mood disorders. Source: National Library of Medicine

At a Glance: This Drug in 2015

3.36M
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 99 of 3395

$43.2M
Retail Cost

Rank: 478 of 3395

450,465
Patients

Rank: 169 of 3395

155,094
Prescribers

Rank: 165 of 3395

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66%

of people say

it's worth it

58%

of people say

it worked well

18%

of people say

it's a huge hassle

Alternatives:

Depakote Tegretol Topamax

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

2.41M

2011

2.66M

2012

2.96M

2013

3.17M

2014

3.36M

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$71.2M

2011

$54.7M

2012

$58.4M

2013

$50.4M

2014

$43.2M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$63

2011

$56

2012

$53

2013

$51

2014

$45

2015

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
California	38,162	255,581	$3.67M
New York	28,152	211,744	$2.99M
Florida	30,952	188,836	$2.37M
Pennsylvania	24,042	185,729	$2.3M
Ohio	19,689	148,940	$2.22M
Texas	22,947	142,543	$1.89M
Massachusetts	17,974	141,114	$1.67M
North Carolina	19,022	132,226	$1.53M
Michigan	18,302	124,880	$1.79M
Illinois	15,187	109,052	$1.7M
Missouri	12,565	96,741	$1.17M
Washington	13,281	94,970	$1.17M
Tennessee	13,809	94,001	$1.05M
Wisconsin	11,692	88,883	$1.27M
Georgia	11,772	78,566	$926K
Indiana	11,098	77,830	$1.1M
New Jersey	9,889	75,426	$847K
Arizona	10,597	71,054	$873K
Minnesota	8,841	68,306	$983K
Oregon	8,713	61,140	$758K
Virginia	9,068	59,351	$807K
Kentucky	8,148	53,612	$654K
Colorado	8,048	52,141	$781K
Connecticut	6,694	50,945	$671K
Alabama	7,903	49,714	$540K
Oklahoma	6,947	47,531	$582K
Maryland	6,864	42,882	$580K
Iowa	5,361	42,844	$462K
South Carolina	6,443	42,219	$549K
Kansas	4,621	35,876	$427K
Arkansas	4,865	35,335	$373K
Louisiana	5,185	35,153	$385K
West Virginia	4,483	32,300	$360K
Maine	4,338	31,216	$353K
Nebraska	3,719	28,489	$282K
Utah	3,858	26,332	$311K
Mississippi	3,410	24,526	$252K
New Mexico	3,598	22,990	$274K
Idaho	3,240	22,404	$220K
New Hampshire	2,958	19,722	$226K
Rhode Island	2,450	18,607	$169K
Nevada	3,132	18,539	$235K
Montana	2,013	15,165	$167K
Vermont	1,699	10,945	$113K
South Dakota	1,271	10,847	$162K
Delaware	1,593	9,857	$146K
North Dakota	1,184	9,635	$102K
Hawaii	1,006	6,844	$91.5K
Alaska	640	6,333	$112K
Wyoming	791	5,488	$60.2K
District of Columbia	873	4,461	$63.9K

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 LAMOTRIGINE

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
ROBERT MORTON MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled2,836	ADA	Oklahoma
MOHMMAD MUNIR M.D. Psychiatry	Claims Filled2,070	DEDHAM	Massachusetts
JOSEPH COOK MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled1,518	AMERICAN FORK	Utah
TIMOTHY POWELL MD Neurology	Claims Filled1,435	SPOKANE	Washington
JESUS RIVERO MD Geriatric Psychiatry	Claims Filled1,318	CAROLINA	Puerto Rico
SANDEEP SAROCH MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled1,168	ASHLAND	Kentucky
ERIC GELLER M.D. Neurology	Claims Filled1,151	LIVINGSTON	New Jersey
JUDITH MAYANS MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled1,146	CORAL GABLES	Florida
SUBHASH PATEL M.D. Psychiatry	Claims Filled1,112	GASTONIA	North Carolina
RAJNIKANT KOTHARI MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled1,005	MASSILLON	Ohio
CATHY MCNEW CRNP Nurse Practitioner	Claims Filled996	HERSHEY	Pennsylvania
SYAM KUNAM MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled949	REDLANDS	California
JEFFREY SMITH MD Specialist	Claims Filled946	GREENVILLE	South Carolina
GREGORY CONNOR M.D. Neurology	Claims Filled945	TULSA	Oklahoma
MOHD MALIK M.D. Psychiatry	Claims Filled911	SAINT LOUIS	Missouri
NAVEED MIRZA MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled905	POPLAR BLUFF	Missouri
SYLVIA LAGDAN ARNP Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatric/Mental Health	Claims Filled904	TACOMA	Washington
DEANNA DICKENS MD Neurology	Claims Filled898	SAINT PAUL	Minnesota
GREGORY BARKLEY M.D. Neurology	Claims Filled863	DETROIT	Michigan
MARSHALL LUCAS MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled861	THE WOODLANDS	Texas
MARILYN LACHMAN MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled838	ALBERTVILLE	Alabama
REINALDO RODRIGUEZ MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled824	HUMACAO	Puerto Rico
VIVIAN ACEVEDO MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled819	BAYAMON	Puerto Rico
MOHAMMAD HASAN MD Addiction Psychiatry	Claims Filled815	BECKLEY	West Virginia
PATRICIA ROGERS NP Neurology	Claims Filled803	ROCHESTER	New York