Prescriber Checkup
The Doctors and Drugs in Medicare Part D
At a Glance: This Drug in 2015
Medicare Part D Claims
Rank: 781 of 3395
Retail Cost
Rank: 61 of 3395
Patients
Rank: 1030 of 3395
Prescribers
Rank: 1279 of 3395
This Drug's History
Claims
The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year
28.3K
2011
37.7K
2012
49.1K
2013
55.1K
2014
60.5K
2015
Spending
The total Part D spending on this drug
each year
$167M
2011
$237M
2012
$330M
2013
$397M
2014
$463M
2015
Average Patient Cost
Average amount that patients without a low-income subsidy paid each year.
$3,528
2011
$3,843
2012
$3,735
2013
$3,847
2014
$4,018
2015
Use by state
| State | Patients | Claims | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 767 | 6,164 | $47M |
| Florida | 623 | 5,162 | $39.7M |
| New York | 544 | 4,475 | $34.7M |
| Texas | 439 | 3,590 | $27.4M |
| Georgia | 391 | 3,241 | $24.6M |
| Ohio | 341 | 2,865 | $21.8M |
| Pennsylvania | 300 | 2,547 | $19.7M |
| North Carolina | 315 | 2,501 | $19.1M |
| Arizona | 269 | 2,277 | $17.3M |
| Alabama | 222 | 1,977 | $14.9M |
| New Jersey | 207 | 1,709 | $13.4M |
| Illinois | 185 | 1,404 | $10.7M |
| Wisconsin | 163 | 1,333 | $10.1M |
| Colorado | 151 | 1,332 | $10.4M |
| South Carolina | 166 | 1,277 | $9.93M |
| Michigan | 149 | 1,216 | $9.19M |
| Utah | 130 | 1,137 | $8.65M |
| Missouri | 135 | 1,128 | $8.63M |
| Virginia | 126 | 1,070 | $8.24M |
| Washington | 115 | 1,030 | $7.75M |
| Massachusetts | 117 | 1,014 | $7.85M |
| Minnesota | 112 | 1,002 | $7.72M |
| Louisiana | 111 | 919 | $6.91M |
| Tennessee | 106 | 893 | $6.76M |
| Mississippi | 95 | 830 | $6.32M |
| Kentucky | 97 | 786 | $5.92M |
| Indiana | 84 | 680 | $5.32M |
| Oregon | 68 | 592 | $4.53M |
| Maryland | 69 | 570 | $4.41M |
| Nevada | 63 | 568 | $4.38M |
| New Mexico | 55 | 498 | $3.95M |
| Connecticut | 56 | 444 | $3.42M |
| Kansas | 48 | 429 | $3.26M |
| Oklahoma | 45 | 388 | $2.94M |
| Nebraska | 46 | 377 | $2.84M |
| West Virginia | 38 | 309 | $2.37M |
| Rhode Island | 34 | 309 | $2.33M |
| Iowa | 39 | 271 | $2.08M |
| Hawaii | 23 | 209 | $1.61M |
| District of Columbia | 23 | 201 | $1.53M |
| South Dakota | 22 | 191 | $1.43M |
| Arkansas | 20 | 187 | $1.45M |
| Montana | 16 | 143 | $1.08M |
| Idaho | 14 | 118 | $896K |
| Vermont | 15 | 89 | $650K |
| New Hampshire | 11 | 60 | $471K |
| Delaware | 56 | $423K | |
| Maine | 55 | $424K | |
| Wyoming | 41 | $308K | |
| Alaska | 13 | $100K | |
| North Dakota | 12 | $92.7K |
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 LETAIRIS
| Provider | Medicare Claims | City | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEREDITH PUGH M.D. |
Claims Filled53 |
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| ANNA HEMNES MD |
Claims Filled189 |
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| DAVID LINDNER DO |
Claims Filled115 |
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| MARIA ROSA COSTANZO MD |
Claims Filled116 |
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| LYNETTE BROWN M.D., PH.D. |
Claims Filled113 |
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| JACQUELINE FEARON-CLARKE NURSE PRACTITIONER |
Claims Filled70 |
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| HOWARD CASTILLO NP |
Claims Filled61 |
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| CARL SMART M.D. |
Claims Filled281 |
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| KAREN FAGAN MD |
Claims Filled62 |
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| DIANNE ZWICKE MD |
Claims Filled137 |
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| DAVID ISHIZAWAR M.D. |
Claims Filled124 |
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| YOSEPH SHALEV MD |
Claims Filled158 |
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| SARA PAULUS |
Claims Filled154 |
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| ESTEBAN ESCOLAR MD |
Claims Filled83 |
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| SHIRIN SHAFAZAND MD |
Claims Filled63 |
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| DEBRA FERTEL MD |
Claims Filled310 |
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| SUZANNE SOROF M.D. |
Claims Filled70 |
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| JEFFREY MICHAELSON MD |
Claims Filled81 |
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| JAMES RUNO MD |
Claims Filled237 |
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| JOHN PLANKEEL M.D. |
Claims Filled170 |
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| JIMMY SMITH D.O. |
Claims Filled189 |
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| CATHERINE NOBEL MD |
Claims Filled54 |
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| RAJAN SAGGAR MD |
Claims Filled174 |
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| KENNETH WEI M.D. |
Claims Filled64 |
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| PARYUS PATEL MD |
Claims Filled96 |