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ACIPHEX

RABEPRAZOLE SODIUM

Aciphex (Rabeprazole) is a proton pump inhibitor (PPI). It lowers the amount of acid in your stomach, treats heartburn, and heals ulcers. Source: Iodine *

*This description is for related drug Rabeprazole

At a Glance: This Drug in 2015

36.5K
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 910 of 3395

$30.8M
Retail Cost

Rank: 562 of 3395

7,199
Patients

Rank: 1027 of 3395

7,555
Prescribers

Rank: 904 of 3395

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Dexilant Nexium omeprazole pantoprazole Pepcid Prevacid Tagamet Zantac

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

404K

2011

372K

2012

285K

2013

50.8K

2014

36.5K

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$132M

2011

$148M

2012

$154M

2013

$33.3M

2014

$30.8M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$316

2011

$352

2012

$350

2013

$374

2014

$486

2015

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
California	926	4,800	$3.72M
New York	878	4,136	$3.88M
New Jersey	561	2,584	$2.36M
Pennsylvania	441	2,269	$1.9M
Florida	512	2,203	$1.98M
Texas	377	1,793	$1.43M
North Carolina	290	1,681	$1.22M
Illinois	233	1,180	$992K
Ohio	196	1,032	$845K
Arizona	205	919	$872K
Wisconsin	188	900	$925K
Georgia	152	838	$583K
Minnesota	133	760	$695K
Massachusetts	136	756	$699K
Connecticut	163	739	$723K
Maryland	163	691	$629K
Michigan	154	668	$728K
Virginia	124	641	$490K
Tennessee	110	573	$478K
Indiana	102	524	$406K
South Carolina	99	517	$427K
Missouri	88	516	$337K
Louisiana	86	483	$300K
Kentucky	80	445	$351K
Oklahoma	84	434	$346K
Colorado	79	426	$348K
Washington	78	410	$375K
Alabama	55	342	$222K
Oregon	57	333	$280K
Iowa	56	267	$208K
Arkansas	42	216	$157K
West Virginia	40	207	$167K
Utah	38	198	$146K
Kansas	31	185	$128K
Maine	36	182	$183K
Nevada	37	178	$134K
Mississippi	35	161	$92.7K
Hawaii	30	158	$115K
New Hampshire	27	144	$136K
Rhode Island	26	128	$89K
New Mexico	19	120	$84K
Nebraska	22	109	$94K
South Dakota	16	108	$79.6K
Delaware	27	90	$125K
Idaho	16	79	$75.6K
Vermont	15	77	$69.5K
Montana	17	68	$50.1K
District of Columbia		34	$43.8K
Wyoming		33	$25.6K

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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