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LIVALO
PITAVASTATIN CALCIUM
Used together with diet, weight-loss, and exercise to reduce the amount of fatty substances such as low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol ('bad cholesterol') in the blood and to increase the amount of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol ('good cholesterol'). Source: National Library of Medicine
At a Glance: This Drug in 2015
Medicare Part D Claims
Rank: 494 of 3395
Retail Cost
Rank: 355 of 3395
Patients
Rank: 514 of 3395
Prescribers
Rank: 489 of 3395
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This Drug's History
Claims
The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year
65.5K
2011
152K
2012
202K
2013
240K
2014
247K
2015
Spending
The total Part D spending on this drug
each year
$8.52M
2011
$24M
2012
$39.1M
2013
$54.9M
2014
$66.9M
2015
Average Patient Cost
Average amount that patients without a low-income subsidy paid each year.
$188
2011
$281
2012
$289
2013
$337
2014
$367
2015
Use by state
| State | Patients | Claims | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5,586 | 22,017 | $6.1M |
| Texas | 4,727 | 20,133 | $5.27M |
| New York | 4,628 | 19,259 | $5.78M |
| California | 4,241 | 19,175 | $5.04M |
| Pennsylvania | 2,896 | 12,507 | $3.43M |
| North Carolina | 2,694 | 12,223 | $2.97M |
| New Jersey | 3,125 | 11,538 | $3.9M |
| Georgia | 2,132 | 9,786 | $2.32M |
| Ohio | 2,243 | 9,243 | $2.67M |
| Alabama | 1,712 | 8,040 | $1.91M |
| South Carolina | 1,651 | 7,535 | $1.91M |
| Illinois | 1,714 | 7,351 | $1.98M |
| Tennessee | 1,617 | 6,906 | $1.77M |
| Louisiana | 1,383 | 6,875 | $1.55M |
| Indiana | 1,570 | 6,379 | $1.78M |
| Michigan | 1,771 | 6,241 | $2.07M |
| Kentucky | 1,429 | 6,237 | $1.66M |
| Missouri | 1,225 | 5,790 | $1.38M |
| Virginia | 1,207 | 5,069 | $1.34M |
| Arizona | 1,130 | 4,576 | $1.32M |
| Maryland | 971 | 3,467 | $1.16M |
| Connecticut | 796 | 3,267 | $996K |
| Kansas | 650 | 3,209 | $754K |
| Nebraska | 600 | 3,046 | $640K |
| Oklahoma | 638 | 2,675 | $692K |
| West Virginia | 516 | 2,259 | $642K |
| Mississippi | 472 | 2,065 | $470K |
| Massachusetts | 432 | 2,004 | $541K |
| Iowa | 393 | 1,934 | $457K |
| Oregon | 396 | 1,618 | $406K |
| Washington | 352 | 1,466 | $393K |
| Colorado | 365 | 1,463 | $413K |
| Arkansas | 285 | 1,349 | $317K |
| Nevada | 359 | 1,338 | $401K |
| Wisconsin | 301 | 1,263 | $348K |
| Hawaii | 279 | 1,070 | $352K |
| Utah | 233 | 861 | $231K |
| Minnesota | 205 | 814 | $211K |
| Delaware | 230 | 783 | $268K |
| Maine | 164 | 668 | $195K |
| North Dakota | 100 | 450 | $101K |
| Rhode Island | 81 | 396 | $99.6K |
| Idaho | 75 | 343 | $91.9K |
| New Mexico | 80 | 310 | $81.4K |
| Montana | 64 | 290 | $74.3K |
| New Hampshire | 55 | 263 | $66.1K |
| South Dakota | 44 | 235 | $43.7K |
| District of Columbia | 47 | 194 | $56.1K |
| Alaska | 23 | 82 | $25.3K |
| Vermont | 14 | 65 | $22.8K |
| Wyoming | 11 | 42 | $9,072 |
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 LIVALO
| Provider | Medicare Claims | City | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| IRENE PERLOFF D.O., M.D. |
Claims Filled382 |
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| ANNA MILSTEIN M.D. |
Claims Filled381 |
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| JAMES LIU M.D. |
Claims Filled280 |
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| THOMAS BARRINGER MD |
Claims Filled228 |
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| GEVORK MAISSIAN D.O. |
Claims Filled219 |
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| KENNETH BESCAK MD |
Claims Filled191 |
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| MANVEL MAZMANYAN M.D. |
Claims Filled189 |
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| JOHN MITCHELL M.D. |
Claims Filled179 |
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| JENCHEN YANG M.D., PH.D |
Claims Filled148 |
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| DENNIS MYERS NP-C, AAHIVS |
Claims Filled138 |
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| OSCAR CHIEN M.D. |
Claims Filled138 |
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| RUPERT JILCOTT MD |
Claims Filled129 |
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| FRANK ROMASCAVAGE DO |
Claims Filled119 |
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| NEWMAN HARTER M. D. |
Claims Filled117 |
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| ALAN SMUCKLER MD |
Claims Filled109 |
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| SWARNA VARMA M.D. |
Claims Filled108 |
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| BRUCE TRIPPE MD |
Claims Filled108 |
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| YI NGAI M.D. |
Claims Filled105 |
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| JUDITH DECKERT A.R.N.P. |
Claims Filled102 |
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| RAMY DOSS MD |
Claims Filled102 |
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| MARGARET RICHARDSON-NIXON MD |
Claims Filled101 |
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| DAVID CLARK M.D., MEDICAL CORP. |
Claims Filled100 |
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| JUAN FERNANDEZ M.D. |
Claims Filled100 |
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| STEVEN DANIELS M.D. |
Claims Filled96 |
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| JOHN NELSON MD |
Claims Filled95 |