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METOLAZONE

Treats high blood pressure and fluid retention (edema). Source: National Library of Medicine

At a Glance: This Drug in 2014

1.02M
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 232 of 3362

$31.4M
Retail Cost

Rank: 518 of 3362

286,535
Patients

Rank: 239 of 3362

120,718
Prescribers

Rank: 212 of 3362

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This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

963K

2011

966K

2012

1.03M

2013

1.02M

2014

1.01M

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$25.6M

2011

$24.4M

2012

$23.8M

2013

$31.4M

2014

$41.4M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$29

2011

$28

2012

$26

2013

$31

2014

$46

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	20,450	68,447	$2.63M
Texas	20,314	66,622	$2.2M
New York	18,231	64,721	$2.06M
Florida	19,170	62,048	$1.97M
Pennsylvania	16,108	60,000	$1.61M
Illinois	13,754	51,018	$1.51M
Ohio	13,522	47,797	$1.42M
Michigan	11,808	37,433	$1.34M
Georgia	9,013	33,894	$996K
North Carolina	9,440	32,334	$966K
Missouri	7,470	27,895	$782K
New Jersey	8,240	27,046	$848K
Tennessee	7,733	26,232	$766K
Indiana	7,524	25,387	$716K
Kentucky	6,320	23,802	$710K
Alabama	6,907	23,539	$764K
Wisconsin	6,094	23,483	$593K
Louisiana	5,778	20,260	$584K
Virginia	5,941	19,746	$596K
Minnesota	5,058	18,245	$502K
Mississippi	4,835	18,075	$539K
South Carolina	5,130	17,993	$552K
Iowa	4,240	17,331	$429K
Oklahoma	4,300	14,975	$521K
Arkansas	3,687	14,258	$448K
Arizona	4,569	13,882	$452K
Kansas	3,430	13,807	$383K
Massachusetts	4,016	13,752	$343K
Washington	3,821	12,984	$398K
Maryland	3,828	11,983	$421K
Connecticut	3,152	10,672	$291K
Nebraska	2,497	10,323	$245K
Colorado	2,869	9,424	$297K
Oregon	2,829	8,990	$287K
West Virginia	2,318	8,440	$267K
Utah	1,728	5,696	$218K
North Dakota	1,171	5,016	$113K
South Dakota	1,195	4,947	$111K
Nevada	1,442	4,328	$166K
Idaho	1,139	3,867	$126K
Maine	1,090	3,542	$99.1K
Montana	899	3,430	$98.2K
Hawaii	959	3,371	$147K
New Mexico	1,093	3,232	$113K
Rhode Island	830	2,895	$61.5K
New Hampshire	764	2,610	$66.2K
Delaware	888	2,418	$86.7K
District of Columbia	560	1,930	$60.5K
Wyoming	442	1,748	$51.6K
Vermont	465	1,644	$50K
Alaska	159	549	$19.9K

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 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 METOLAZONE

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
MARCIO FEREZ MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled483	HIALEAH	Florida
DANIEL HURLEY M.D. Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled436	BEECH GROVE	Indiana
JUAN CUETO MD Interventional Cardiology	Claims Filled425	MIAMI	Florida
RICARDO CIGARROA M.D. Specialist	Claims Filled405	LAREDO	Texas
HATTIE HENDERSON M.D. Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled396	HOUSTON	Texas
CHARLES STAFFORD M.D. Nephrology	Claims Filled382	LEXINGTON	Kentucky
MANISH GERA MBBS Nephrology	Claims Filled369	TERRE HAUTE	Indiana
NEIL KUMAR MD Specialist	Claims Filled316	ROSEBURG	Oregon
JOHN WAGNER M.D., C.M.D. General Practice	Claims Filled313	CULLMAN	Alabama
JOHN RICHARD M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled309	LEXINGTON	Kentucky
MICHAEL STEPHENS MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled305	ORANGE PARK	Florida
JOHN JAGEMAN M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled290	ERIE	Pennsylvania
ABDUL MALIK MD Cardiovascular Disease	Claims Filled275	BROOKLYN	New York
DALE MCGREGOR D.O. Emergency Medicine	Claims Filled272	MOULTRIE	Georgia
PRAKASH SARVEPALLI M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled266	EDMORE	Michigan
NARSIMHA GOTTAM M.D. Cardiovascular Disease	Claims Filled252	DETROIT	Michigan
MOHAMMAD SAMIH M.D. Nephrology	Claims Filled249	HARLAN	Kentucky
BIKRAMJIT MALHOTRA M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled249	DANVILLE	Illinois
STANLEY MORROW DO Family Medicine	Claims Filled247	HACKLEBURG	Alabama
DANIEL CHIKVASHVILI M.D. Cardiovascular Disease	Claims Filled245	EAST MEADOW	New York
CLYDE GREEN MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled244	MACON	Georgia
JORGE PASTORIZA MD Cardiovascular Disease	Claims Filled243	MIAMI	Florida
WASIM AHMED MD Nephrology	Claims Filled243	NEW CASTLE	Pennsylvania
ANDREW COLMAN DO General Practice	Claims Filled242	WESTLAND	Michigan
RONALD COTTLE MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled227	ELIZABETHTOWN	North Carolina