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RANITIDINE HCL

Ranitidine is used to treat ulcers; gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), a condition in which backward flow of acid from the stomach causes heartburn and injury of the food pipe (esophagus); and conditions where the stomach produces too much acid, such as Zollinger-Ellison syndrome. Source: National Library of Medicine

At a Glance: This Drug in 2015

7.92M
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 42 of 3395

$92.7M
Retail Cost

Rank: 284 of 3395

1,737,706
Patients

Rank: 46 of 3395

306,731
Prescribers

Rank: 56 of 3395

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of people say

it's worth it

44%

of people say

it worked well

7%

of people say

it's a huge hassle

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This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

6.86M

2011

7.09M

2012

7.56M

2013

7.78M

2014

7.92M

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$75.1M

2011

$78.9M

2012

$93.6M

2013

$96.4M

2014

$92.7M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$20

2011

$20

2012

$20

2013

$22

2014

$23

2015

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
Florida	138,067	553,766	$6.94M
California	133,558	520,990	$6.54M
New York	109,853	489,304	$6.1M
Pennsylvania	78,119	379,818	$4.76M
Georgia	70,668	335,771	$3.5M
Texas	82,426	314,094	$4.2M
Michigan	72,439	292,843	$3.95M
Missouri	52,828	290,101	$2.96M
Tennessee	57,652	279,579	$3.33M
Ohio	55,952	254,053	$3.25M
North Carolina	54,446	246,491	$2.94M
Illinois	51,961	241,680	$2.93M
Kentucky	40,010	211,971	$2.15M
South Carolina	41,500	188,218	$2.14M
Massachusetts	37,941	173,762	$2.4M
Washington	36,357	165,718	$1.84M
Virginia	36,226	160,046	$2.02M
Indiana	30,819	136,834	$1.76M
Arizona	33,890	135,758	$1.93M
Alabama	29,724	129,014	$1.46M
Wisconsin	28,719	126,703	$1.6M
Mississippi	24,264	121,134	$1.09M
Minnesota	27,662	118,435	$1.34M
Maryland	28,476	112,129	$1.54M
West Virginia	21,893	110,112	$1.06M
Iowa	19,802	105,470	$985K
Louisiana	20,687	94,148	$1M
New Jersey	23,803	92,406	$1.27M
Colorado	23,249	90,414	$1.25M
Arkansas	16,824	82,668	$728K
Oklahoma	17,893	81,518	$899K
Oregon	14,926	67,259	$798K
Kansas	11,939	57,550	$579K
Maine	11,407	49,051	$695K
Connecticut	10,945	45,824	$655K
New Mexico	11,823	44,157	$619K
Nevada	10,145	39,563	$495K
Rhode Island	7,988	38,219	$580K
Nebraska	6,633	35,727	$325K
Idaho	6,683	28,737	$332K
Utah	7,035	28,673	$318K
New Hampshire	6,233	26,631	$415K
Hawaii	4,781	18,126	$265K
Delaware	4,665	16,340	$265K
South Dakota	3,168	16,020	$152K
Montana	3,096	13,826	$146K
Vermont	3,183	13,166	$165K
North Dakota	2,321	11,139	$105K
District of Columbia	2,293	8,919	$122K
Alaska	1,409	7,892	$97.2K
Wyoming	1,137	4,884	$55.5K

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 RANITIDINE HCL

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
NELSON RIVERA RIVERA M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled2,870	VILLALBA	Puerto Rico
BOB SOUDER MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled2,746	JACKSON	Tennessee
LONG DANG M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled2,594	WESTMINSTER	California
CARLOS MUNIZ MOLINERO MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled2,093	AGUADA	Puerto Rico
BRUCE LEE M.D. Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled2,083	CALHOUN	Georgia
TODD FULCHER MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled2,027	BRANDON	Mississippi
EDWIN FIGUEROA DELGADO MD General Practice	Claims Filled1,926	CAGUAS	Puerto Rico
ROBERTO GONZALEZ M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,890	AGUADA	Puerto Rico
ANGEL VELOSO M.D. Gastroenterology	Claims Filled1,886	MIAMI	Florida
RAUL ACOSTA M.D. General Practice	Claims Filled1,777	YABUCOA	Puerto Rico
DAVID QUESTELL ALVARADO M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,755	SANTA ISABEL	Puerto Rico
EDUARDO TREJO DERIVET M.D. General Practice	Claims Filled1,736	NAGUABO	Puerto Rico
JAVIER ARROYO MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled1,731	HUMACAO	Puerto Rico
RICARDO BLONDET VISSEPO M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,696	PONCE	Puerto Rico
JOSE DE LEON M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,680	VEGA BAJA	Puerto Rico
CARLOS RAMOS M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,670	SAN SEBASTIAN	Puerto Rico
SAMUEL PADILLA ROSA Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,669	MANATI	Puerto Rico
CHARLES MAXVILL DO Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled1,603	EULESS	Texas
EDGAR RAMOS MENDEZ MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled1,597	BARCELONETA	Puerto Rico
RAFAEL ESPINET M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,586	PONCE	Puerto Rico
ABDULLAH ARSHAD MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,567	HAYTI	Missouri
PEDRO LOPEZ LOPEZ Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,544	GUAYAMA	Puerto Rico
LUIS LLAVONA M.D. General Practice	Claims Filled1,505	COMERIO	Puerto Rico
ALEXANDER BRODSKY MD Gastroenterology	Claims Filled1,497	BROOKLYN	New York
MIGUEL RAMIREZ-SOTO M.D. Specialist	Claims Filled1,493	JUNCOS	Puerto Rico