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ANASTROZOLE
Treats certain types of breast cancer in women who have stopped menstruating (postmenopausal). Source: National Library of Medicine
At a Glance: This Drug in 2015
Medicare Part D Claims
Rank: 201 of 3395
Retail Cost
Rank: 651 of 3395
Patients
Rank: 261 of 3395
Prescribers
Rank: 375 of 3395
This Drug's History
Claims
The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year
908K
2011
1.01M
2012
1.13M
2013
1.22M
2014
1.29M
2015
Spending
The total Part D spending on this drug
each year
$63.8M
2011
$41.5M
2012
$42.1M
2013
$35.2M
2014
$23.9M
2015
Average Patient Cost
Average amount that patients without a low-income subsidy paid each year.
$73
2011
$62
2012
$62
2013
$58
2014
$46
2015
Use by state
| State | Patients | Claims | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 26,999 | 124,638 | $2.59M |
| Florida | 21,936 | 101,264 | $1.85M |
| New York | 18,051 | 87,153 | $1.82M |
| Texas | 17,331 | 83,446 | $1.41M |
| Pennsylvania | 14,853 | 76,568 | $1.42M |
| Ohio | 11,933 | 59,207 | $1.19M |
| Illinois | 10,217 | 50,387 | $903K |
| Georgia | 7,016 | 41,165 | $512K |
| North Carolina | 7,295 | 39,515 | $530K |
| Michigan | 9,027 | 38,079 | $1.03M |
| Missouri | 6,426 | 34,624 | $521K |
| New Jersey | 7,553 | 33,589 | $623K |
| Indiana | 6,190 | 29,824 | $540K |
| Massachusetts | 5,997 | 29,710 | $714K |
| Tennessee | 5,747 | 29,348 | $398K |
| Wisconsin | 5,413 | 26,765 | $470K |
| Arizona | 5,303 | 22,591 | $479K |
| Washington | 4,757 | 22,284 | $357K |
| Virginia | 4,636 | 21,651 | $423K |
| South Carolina | 3,965 | 21,428 | $290K |
| Louisiana | 3,609 | 21,406 | $485K |
| Kentucky | 3,805 | 20,863 | $321K |
| Minnesota | 4,171 | 18,256 | $468K |
| Alabama | 3,331 | 18,240 | $267K |
| Connecticut | 3,668 | 17,628 | $426K |
| Oregon | 3,321 | 15,457 | $308K |
| Maryland | 3,876 | 15,382 | $356K |
| Colorado | 3,484 | 15,093 | $285K |
| Iowa | 2,590 | 15,003 | $205K |
| Arkansas | 2,228 | 14,003 | $156K |
| Kansas | 2,276 | 12,442 | $185K |
| Mississippi | 2,170 | 12,296 | $129K |
| Oklahoma | 2,384 | 11,477 | $226K |
| Nevada | 2,079 | 9,183 | $140K |
| Nebraska | 1,472 | 8,620 | $111K |
| West Virginia | 1,666 | 8,547 | $139K |
| Rhode Island | 1,237 | 7,835 | $138K |
| Utah | 1,534 | 6,580 | $106K |
| Idaho | 1,181 | 5,477 | $120K |
| Maine | 1,309 | 5,242 | $151K |
| New Mexico | 1,108 | 5,077 | $187K |
| South Dakota | 882 | 5,012 | $69.7K |
| New Hampshire | 1,045 | 4,814 | $90.6K |
| Hawaii | 1,017 | 4,266 | $84.2K |
| North Dakota | 827 | 4,156 | $66.1K |
| Montana | 861 | 4,139 | $61.1K |
| Delaware | 930 | 3,384 | $112K |
| Vermont | 446 | 2,023 | $38.7K |
| District of Columbia | 421 | 1,645 | $36.3K |
| Wyoming | 229 | 1,141 | $17.5K |
| Alaska | 142 | 728 | $13.5K |
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 ANASTROZOLE
| Provider | Medicare Claims | City | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| GORDON CASTLEBERRY M.D. |
Claims Filled1,872 |
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| LUIS BAEZ DIAZ M.D. |
Claims Filled1,691 |
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| SERGIO XIQUES M.D. |
Claims Filled1,141 |
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| CARRIE DUL M.D. |
Claims Filled1,009 |
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| VICTOR VOGEL MD |
Claims Filled955 |
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| BACHIR SAKR MD |
Claims Filled954 |
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| DIANE WILDER M.D. |
Claims Filled927 |
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| CAMERON HARKNESS MD |
Claims Filled895 |
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| NGUYET LE-LINDQWISTER MD |
Claims Filled859 |
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| LUIS RANGEL MD |
Claims Filled846 |
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| VIKAS MALHOTRA M.D. |
Claims Filled807 |
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| EMILE SALLOUM MD |
Claims Filled789 |
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| ARUNA PADMANABHAN MD |
Claims Filled761 |
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| BRIAN PRUITT M.D. |
Claims Filled759 |
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| SAIFUDDIN SONIWALA M.D. |
Claims Filled748 |
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| RAYMOND HARWOOD MD |
Claims Filled743 |
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| JEFFREY MARGOLIS M.D. |
Claims Filled738 |
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| SHRUTI TREHAN MD |
Claims Filled734 |
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| MARK WESTBERG MD |
Claims Filled730 |
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| ROCHELLE STRENGER MD |
Claims Filled714 |
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| STEVEN CORSO MD |
Claims Filled694 |
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| VICTOR VAZQUEZ-RODRIGUEZ M.D. |
Claims Filled693 |
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| AMY AWAIDA M.D. |
Claims Filled692 |
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| TERESA MURRAY-LAW MD |
Claims Filled683 |
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| CHRISTOPHER PERKINS MD |
Claims Filled678 |