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Prescriber Checkup » STAVUDINE

STAVUDINE

stavudine stops the replication of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) within important cells of the body by preventing the virus from taking over normal functions of the cell for its own purposes. Source: Iodine

At a Glance: This Drug in 2016

5,355
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 1528 of 3393

$404K
Retail Cost

Rank: 2037 of 3393

717
Patients

Rank: 1826 of 3393

718
Prescribers

Rank: 1778 of 3393

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Alternatives:

Emtriva Epivir Viread Ziagen Retrovir Videx

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

11.3K

2012

9,642

2013

8,307

2014

6,633

2015

5,314

2016

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$1.52M

2012

$1.07M

2013

$877K

2014

$640K

2015

$401K

2016

Average Patient Cost

Average amount that patients paid each year.

$959

2012

$831

2013

$781

2014

$712

2015

$561

2016

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
Florida	109	871	$60.5K
New York	100	695	$47.1K
California	61	396	$39.4K
Texas	50	357	$21.7K
Louisiana	36	310	$22.6K
Tennessee	20	191	$14.6K
Illinois	23	175	$12.6K
North Carolina	20	169	$10.3K
South Carolina	18	147	$8,182
Georgia	24	140	$8,422
Pennsylvania	15	139	$9,671
Virginia	20	124	$9,592
Connecticut	14	115	$7,302
Ohio	12	108	$8,351
New Jersey	15	103	$7,632
Maryland	18	98	$8,008
Washington	11	94	$7,443
Missouri	14	93	$7,016
Indiana	13	92	$6,586
Massachusetts		69	$5,273
Minnesota		67	$3,737
Michigan		54	$7,310
Arizona		48	$4,413
Mississippi		47	$4,916
Oklahoma		46	$3,214
Arkansas		46	$3,576
Kansas		36	$1,918
Alabama		33	$2,364
Oregon		32	$3,071
Colorado		31	$4,211
Hawaii		31	$3,242
District of Columbia		30	$2,662
Nebraska		24	$2,239
Rhode Island		24	$4,165
New Mexico		22	$2,186
Nevada		21	$1,907
Maine		19	$1,033
Kentucky		18	$1,145
Wisconsin		16	$1,395
West Virginia		15	$1,068
Iowa		15	$1,272

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 2016 includes more than 1.5 billion prescriptions written by 1.1 million doctors, nurses and other providers. This database lists over 460,000 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 STAVUDINE

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
MARGARITA LAMOTHE M.D. Infectious Disease	Claims Filled92	MEMPHIS	Tennessee
IKRAM HAQ MD Infectious Disease	Claims Filled56	PANAMA CITY	Florida