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SUMATRIPTAN SUCCINATE

Sumatriptan is used to treat the symptoms of migraine headaches (severe, throbbing headaches that sometimes is accompanied by nausea or sensitivity to sound and light). Source: National Library of Medicine

At a Glance: This Drug in 2015

1.27M
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 203 of 3395

$60.5M
Retail Cost

Rank: 382 of 3395

308,909
Patients

Rank: 228 of 3395

157,699
Prescribers

Rank: 162 of 3395

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Alternatives:

Imitrex Statdose Sumavel Dosepro

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

717K

2011

862K

2012

1.04M

2013

1.16M

2014

1.27M

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$54M

2011

$62.1M

2012

$65.5M

2013

$61.5M

2014

$60.5M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$49

2011

$50

2012

$48

2013

$43

2014

$45

2015

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
California	37,301	156,208	$6.59M
Florida	21,012	83,502	$3.56M
New York	16,644	68,789	$3.9M
Texas	16,243	60,931	$2.71M
Pennsylvania	13,647	56,833	$3.26M
Ohio	13,044	51,420	$2.85M
Michigan	12,055	46,671	$2.76M
North Carolina	10,658	41,784	$2.1M
Georgia	9,229	36,475	$1.47M
Illinois	9,027	35,833	$1.51M
Arizona	8,338	32,989	$1.63M
Tennessee	8,282	32,387	$1.35M
Washington	8,379	32,065	$1.35M
Missouri	7,115	30,807	$1.17M
Wisconsin	7,804	30,532	$1.67M
Indiana	7,455	29,661	$1.45M
Massachusetts	6,984	28,845	$1.46M
Minnesota	7,197	28,149	$1.7M
Kentucky	6,599	26,645	$1.04M
Virginia	6,582	25,911	$1.34M
Alabama	6,191	25,796	$1.37M
Oregon	5,988	23,389	$1.1M
South Carolina	5,698	23,060	$994K
Colorado	5,964	22,680	$1.18M
New Jersey	4,968	20,048	$1.09M
Oklahoma	3,936	16,219	$593K
Arkansas	3,778	15,649	$575K
Louisiana	3,776	14,818	$544K
Iowa	3,456	13,948	$698K
Utah	3,159	13,940	$501K
Maryland	3,678	13,726	$715K
Connecticut	2,953	11,565	$676K
Nevada	2,891	11,318	$426K
Mississippi	2,742	10,701	$366K
Kansas	2,489	10,617	$448K
West Virginia	2,499	10,193	$384K
Idaho	2,340	9,392	$521K
New Mexico	2,441	9,152	$439K
Maine	2,248	8,720	$506K
Nebraska	1,879	8,452	$438K
New Hampshire	1,578	5,961	$411K
Rhode Island	1,208	4,979	$226K
Montana	1,198	4,602	$265K
Vermont	1,015	3,709	$146K
North Dakota	854	3,534	$189K
Delaware	917	3,236	$167K
Hawaii	790	2,916	$157K
South Dakota	707	2,691	$127K
Wyoming	444	1,776	$117K
District of Columbia	364	1,197	$55K
Alaska	305	1,163	$67.8K

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 SUMATRIPTAN SUCCINATE

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
ROBERT KANIECKI MD Specialist	Claims Filled675	PITTSBURGH	Pennsylvania
IRAJ DERAKHSHAN MD Specialist	Claims Filled473	CHARLESTON	West Virginia
ZAVEN ARSLANIAN M.D. General Practice	Claims Filled403	GLENDALE	California
CYNTHIA KNUTSON MD Neurology	Claims Filled376	FARGO	North Dakota
KIMBERLY MCGONIGLE PA-C Physician Assistant	Claims Filled319	PITTSBURGH	Pennsylvania
JOSIF STAKIC M.D. Neurology	Claims Filled310	PITTSBURGH	Pennsylvania
MINSOO KANG MD Neurology	Claims Filled310	AMHERST	New York
MARIA RIZZO RPA-C Physician Assistant	Claims Filled298	AMHERST	New York
AHMED SHATLA M.D. Neurological Surgery	Claims Filled285	NEW HARTFORD	New York
ROBERT BROCKER M.D. Neurology	Claims Filled279	YOUNGSTOWN	Ohio
MATTHEW ENGELBRECHT M.D. Neurology	Claims Filled270	ASHEVILLE	North Carolina
LAWRENCE ROBBINS M.D. Neurology	Claims Filled261	NORTHBROOK	Illinois
CHRISTOPHER O'CARROLL M.D. Neurology	Claims Filled248	NEWPORT BEACH	California
VAGHARSHAK PILOSSYAN M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled247	VAN NUYS	California
MARY CHIASSON D.O. Neurology	Claims Filled247	MINNEAPOLIS	Minnesota
RICHARD DIETHELM M.D. Neurology	Claims Filled246	BIRMINGHAM	Alabama
CHAD WHYTE M.D. Neurology	Claims Filled238	OMAHA	Nebraska
ANTHONY ESPOSITO MD Neurology	Claims Filled238	ANNISTON	Alabama
KENNETH SHARLIN MD Neurology	Claims Filled237	OZARK	Missouri
JOSE CASANOVA MD PHD Neurology	Claims Filled233	CANTON	Ohio
MUHAMMED NASHER-ALNEAM MD Neurology	Claims Filled233	CHARLESTON	West Virginia
MANJULA TELLA M.D. Specialist	Claims Filled232	FREMONT	Nebraska
MICHAEL NOVAK M.D. Neurology	Claims Filled231	NAPLES	Florida
MARINA KOVALEVSKY M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled225	LOS ANGELES	California
KORNEL LUKACS MD Neurology	Claims Filled223	ALTOONA	Pennsylvania