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RANITIDINE HCL

Zantac 75 (ranitidine) reduces the production of acid by blocking a chemical from acting on the acid-producing cells in your stomach. Source: Iodine *

*This description is for related drug Zantac

At a Glance: This Drug in 2016

8.62M
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 39 of 3393

$105M
Retail Cost

Rank: 270 of 3393

1,981,329
Patients

Rank: 45 of 3393

322,472
Prescribers

Rank: 55 of 3393

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72%

of people say

it's worth it

44%

of people say

it worked well

7%

of people say

it's a huge hassle

Alternatives:

Omeprazole Prevacid Nexium Pantoprazole Pepcid Tagamet Maalox Tums

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

6.96M

2012

7.42M

2013

7.77M

2014

7.91M

2015

8.6M

2016

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$75M

2012

$91.2M

2013

$96.2M

2014

$92.7M

2015

$105M

2016

Average Patient Cost

Average amount that patients paid each year.

$52

2012

$57

2013

$57

2014

$53

2015

$53

2016

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
Florida	157,611	592,977	$8.08M
California	151,565	566,699	$7.67M
New York	129,959	552,500	$7.16M
Pennsylvania	92,328	433,553	$5.4M
Georgia	79,165	367,136	$4.22M
Texas	94,554	344,335	$4.82M
Michigan	81,413	319,428	$3.82M
Missouri	57,067	300,759	$3.22M
Tennessee	64,056	292,007	$3.88M
Ohio	64,411	281,847	$3.55M
North Carolina	64,950	279,784	$3.46M
Illinois	56,704	251,356	$3.2M
Kentucky	45,912	237,768	$2.44M
Massachusetts	47,772	207,224	$2.73M
South Carolina	46,530	204,129	$2.59M
Virginia	42,203	178,593	$2.3M
Washington	40,785	172,848	$2.17M
Indiana	35,591	151,554	$2M
Alabama	34,856	143,591	$1.68M
Arizona	37,369	141,000	$2.34M
Wisconsin	33,705	140,911	$1.88M
Minnesota	32,378	136,184	$1.47M
Mississippi	27,753	135,462	$1.16M
Maryland	33,612	126,065	$1.79M
West Virginia	26,098	125,789	$1.3M
Iowa	22,306	112,502	$1.01M
New Jersey	28,215	104,769	$1.5M
Louisiana	23,833	103,165	$1.11M
Colorado	26,849	99,044	$1.44M
Arkansas	19,054	89,100	$775K
Oklahoma	19,789	86,684	$1.04M
Oregon	17,703	73,202	$953K
Kansas	13,430	62,409	$643K
Connecticut	13,963	54,950	$783K
Maine	13,009	52,728	$815K
New Mexico	13,605	48,532	$669K
Rhode Island	9,970	45,354	$704K
Nevada	11,477	42,010	$576K
Nebraska	7,899	40,593	$350K
Idaho	8,384	33,457	$432K
Utah	8,690	32,597	$416K
New Hampshire	7,133	29,837	$472K
Delaware	6,028	19,718	$333K
South Dakota	3,808	18,479	$153K
Hawaii	5,289	18,312	$299K
Montana	3,560	15,117	$154K
Vermont	3,856	14,936	$200K
North Dakota	2,843	14,002	$118K
District of Columbia	2,530	9,592	$143K
Alaska	1,610	7,346	$104K
Wyoming	1,451	5,845	$64.6K

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 2016 includes more than 1.5 billion prescriptions written by 1.1 million doctors, nurses and other providers. This database lists over 460,000 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 RANITIDINE HCL

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
NELSON RIVERA RIVERA M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled4,009	VILLALBA	Puerto Rico
WYATT BLAKE MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled2,663	MONTICELLO	Georgia
CARLOS MUNIZ MOLINERO MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled2,465	AGUADA	Puerto Rico
RAUL RODRIGUEZ MD Community Health Worker	Claims Filled2,411	PEMBROKE PINES	Florida
EDWIN FIGUEROA DELGADO MD General Practice	Claims Filled2,230	CAGUAS	Puerto Rico
MIGUEL RODRIGUEZ MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled2,174	CIDRA	Puerto Rico
BRUCE LEE M.D. Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled2,001	CALHOUN	Georgia
DAVID QUESTELL ALVARADO M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,995	SANTA ISABEL	Puerto Rico
RICARDO BLONDET VISSEPO M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,930	PONCE	Puerto Rico
RAFAEL ESPINET M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,903	PONCE	Puerto Rico
WILLIAM TAYLOR MD Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled1,850	DUBLIN	Georgia
JOHN RICHARD M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled1,845	LEXINGTON	Kentucky
ALEXANDER BRODSKY MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled1,797	BROOKLYN	New York
TODD FULCHER MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled1,795	BRANDON	Mississippi
BOB SOUDER MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled1,783	JACKSON	Tennessee
EDUARDO TREJO DERIVET M.D. General Practice	Claims Filled1,759	NAGUABO	Puerto Rico
RICARDO JIMENEZ M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,706	CAYEY	Puerto Rico
DANIEL BRANOVAN M.D. Surgery	Claims Filled1,703	BROOKLYN	New York
JAVIER ARROYO MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled1,678	HUMACAO	Puerto Rico
CARLOS RAMOS M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,651	SAN SEBASTIAN	Puerto Rico
RAUL ACOSTA M.D. General Practice	Claims Filled1,630	YABUCOA	Puerto Rico
ERROL GRAHAM M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,590	BAXLEY	Georgia
MICHAEL BABILONIA ROMAN M.D. Rheumatology	Claims Filled1,534	MAYAGUEZ	Puerto Rico
LUIS LLAVONA M.D. General Practice	Claims Filled1,520	COMERIO	Puerto Rico
FRANCISCO FONTANET MD Specialist	Claims Filled1,519	BARCELONETA	Puerto Rico