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PREDNISOLONE ACETATE

Ophthalmic prednisolone reduces the irritation, redness, burning, and swelling of eye inflammation caused by chemicals, heat, radiation, infection, allergy, or foreign bodies in the eye. Source: National Library of Medicine

At a Glance: This Drug in 2014

2.54M
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 123 of 3362

$160M
Retail Cost

Rank: 164 of 3362

1,468,708
Patients

Rank: 55 of 3362

81,142
Prescribers

Rank: 290 of 3362

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This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

1.76M

2011

2.04M

2012

2.39M

2013

2.54M

2014

2.62M

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$26.9M

2011

$31.2M

2012

$58.2M

2013

$160M

2014

$162M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$11

2011

$12

2012

$13

2013

$21

2014

$27

2015

Note: While the rest of this page displays data from 2014, the charts above display data through 2015, from a special release by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
California	180,702	305,364	$20.4M
Florida	118,557	210,479	$13.4M
New York	94,135	184,512	$11.2M
Texas	94,397	150,142	$9.95M
Pennsylvania	74,065	133,213	$7.83M
Ohio	58,918	100,558	$5.98M
Illinois	45,844	79,186	$4.57M
Michigan	47,328	78,401	$5.29M
North Carolina	42,983	72,794	$4.48M
Massachusetts	40,206	69,247	$4.32M
Georgia	36,604	63,719	$3.88M
Washington	32,845	54,687	$3.16M
Arizona	33,488	53,062	$3.15M
Tennessee	32,928	51,589	$3.34M
Missouri	31,624	51,552	$3.15M
Virginia	29,971	51,042	$3.35M
Minnesota	29,090	48,962	$3.22M
New Jersey	27,463	48,492	$2.96M
Wisconsin	26,851	43,192	$2.84M
Alabama	25,524	42,520	$2.83M
South Carolina	22,828	38,719	$2.39M
Louisiana	21,963	38,714	$2.49M
Indiana	23,774	37,614	$2.33M
Oregon	22,627	36,330	$2.31M
Maryland	20,464	34,783	$2.37M
Colorado	21,051	34,372	$2.16M
Kentucky	19,023	29,411	$1.9M
Connecticut	14,475	25,433	$1.55M
Iowa	14,761	24,554	$1.64M
Nevada	13,500	22,947	$1.49M
Mississippi	13,323	22,557	$1.47M
Arkansas	13,806	22,510	$1.49M
Kansas	13,793	22,140	$1.29M
Oklahoma	13,690	20,995	$1.32M
New Mexico	11,859	19,671	$1.19M
West Virginia	10,105	16,487	$998K
Nebraska	9,546	15,368	$1.06M
Utah	9,766	14,936	$952K
Idaho	7,720	11,881	$710K
Hawaii	7,089	11,367	$724K
South Dakota	6,031	9,975	$657K
North Dakota	5,830	9,611	$635K
Maine	5,860	9,418	$590K
Rhode Island	5,366	8,936	$556K
New Hampshire	4,841	7,795	$437K
Delaware	4,260	6,662	$368K
Montana	4,140	6,453	$408K
Vermont	3,290	5,546	$318K
District of Columbia	2,031	3,915	$282K
Alaska	853	1,320	$90.6K
Wyoming	767	1,209	$68.1K

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 2014 includes more than 1.4 billion prescriptions written by more than 1.3 million doctors, nurses and other providers. This database lists about 428,000 of those providers who wrote 50 or more prescriptions for at least one drug that year. Almost 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 PREDNISOLONE ACETATE

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
SALOMON ESQUENAZI MD Specialist	Claims Filled3,083	MIAMI	Florida
ARTHUR WEINSTEIN M.D. Ophthalmology	Claims Filled2,249	ALBUQUERQUE	New Mexico
SAMUEL SELTZER MD Ophthalmology	Claims Filled2,134	FLORENCE	South Carolina
EVA LIANG MD Ophthalmology	Claims Filled2,071	LAS VEGAS	Nevada
NEIL GRIFFIN MD Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,788	ROCKINGHAM	North Carolina
ARNULFO MANSUR M.D. Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,714	MIAMI	Florida
HERBERT KNAUF MD Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,704	CLEARWATER	Florida
AIDA ROMULO NP Nurse Practitioner	Claims Filled1,704	FONTANA	California
WALFRED TORRES DAVILA MD Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,698	TOA ALTA	Puerto Rico
BRADFORD SHINGLETON Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,666	BOSTON	Massachusetts
EDUARDO PEREZ M.D. Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,606	PONCE	Puerto Rico
CLINTON SHEETS M.D. Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,581	CLEARWATER	Florida
STEWART VANHORN M.D. Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,580	BROOKVILLE	Pennsylvania
CESAR QUINONES M.D. Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,577	CAGUAS	Puerto Rico
KIRK STURRIDGE M.D. Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,544	DOTHAN	Alabama
DAVID VERDIER M.D. Specialist	Claims Filled1,543	GRAND RAPIDS	Michigan
MARK GOROVOY M.D. Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,535	FORT MYERS	Florida
RAYMOND FONG M.D. Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,465	NEW YORK	New York
MARK OBERLANDER MD Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,460	PINELLAS PARK	Florida
OSWALD RONDON M.D. Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,449	CORAL GABLES	Florida
HIRAM QUINONES- FERRER M.D. Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,447	PONCE	Puerto Rico
JORGE HERNANDEZ RUIZ MD Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,443	PONCE	Puerto Rico
HERIBERTO MARTINEZ LEBRON Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,423	GUAYAMA	Puerto Rico
PARAG PAREKH M.D. Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,404	DU BOIS	Pennsylvania
DEMETRIAN DORNIC M.D. Ophthalmology	Claims Filled1,379	CARY	North Carolina