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SULFAMETHOXAZOLE-TRIMETHOPRIM
SULFAMETHOXAZOLE/TRIMETHOPRIM
Treating infections caused by certain bacteria. Source: National Library of Medicine
At a Glance: This Drug in 2015
Medicare Part D Claims
Rank: 69 of 3395
Retail Cost
Rank: 592 of 3395
Patients
Rank: 24 of 3395
Prescribers
Rank: 8 of 3395
This Drug's History
Claims
The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year
4.07M
2011
4.32M
2012
4.73M
2013
4.83M
2014
4.82M
2015
Spending
The total Part D spending on this drug
each year
$30M
2011
$30.8M
2012
$31.8M
2013
$29.2M
2014
$28.8M
2015
Average Patient Cost
Average amount that patients without a low-income subsidy paid each year.
$7
2011
$7
2012
$6
2013
$6
2014
$6
2015
Use by state
| State | Patients | Claims | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 290,236 | 429,913 | $2.98M |
| Florida | 258,737 | 380,463 | $2.04M |
| Texas | 242,925 | 358,870 | $2.19M |
| New York | 149,430 | 239,320 | $1.37M |
| Ohio | 139,157 | 228,588 | $1.3M |
| Pennsylvania | 137,869 | 222,184 | $1.3M |
| Michigan | 114,843 | 171,495 | $850K |
| North Carolina | 107,666 | 167,321 | $1.04M |
| Illinois | 103,605 | 166,097 | $1.05M |
| Georgia | 103,366 | 150,375 | $864K |
| Tennessee | 100,196 | 147,746 | $841K |
| Alabama | 79,837 | 119,037 | $639K |
| Missouri | 73,775 | 117,103 | $704K |
| Indiana | 72,361 | 116,394 | $699K |
| Louisiana | 65,774 | 98,209 | $540K |
| Kentucky | 67,292 | 97,820 | $554K |
| New Jersey | 63,081 | 95,593 | $575K |
| Virginia | 63,810 | 94,336 | $632K |
| South Carolina | 60,664 | 89,896 | $548K |
| Massachusetts | 55,325 | 89,156 | $510K |
| Arizona | 57,389 | 84,015 | $517K |
| Wisconsin | 48,653 | 78,996 | $516K |
| Washington | 51,289 | 78,750 | $506K |
| Minnesota | 43,289 | 75,501 | $469K |
| Mississippi | 49,134 | 71,647 | $414K |
| Oklahoma | 45,780 | 66,946 | $391K |
| Arkansas | 45,620 | 66,312 | $355K |
| Maryland | 41,785 | 63,489 | $406K |
| Iowa | 35,873 | 58,458 | $326K |
| Oregon | 36,722 | 56,292 | $360K |
| Colorado | 33,997 | 52,473 | $358K |
| Kansas | 33,991 | 52,384 | $306K |
| West Virginia | 29,159 | 43,618 | $251K |
| Connecticut | 28,027 | 43,029 | $279K |
| Nebraska | 20,146 | 32,760 | $184K |
| Nevada | 21,372 | 29,855 | $190K |
| Utah | 18,414 | 28,251 | $173K |
| New Mexico | 17,944 | 25,128 | $145K |
| Idaho | 14,895 | 23,124 | $145K |
| Maine | 14,103 | 21,782 | $151K |
| New Hampshire | 11,014 | 16,995 | $110K |
| Rhode Island | 10,103 | 15,154 | $96.6K |
| Hawaii | 9,815 | 13,435 | $96.8K |
| Delaware | 9,132 | 13,270 | $84.2K |
| South Dakota | 8,233 | 13,223 | $86.9K |
| Montana | 8,246 | 12,479 | $72.6K |
| North Dakota | 6,790 | 11,079 | $67.3K |
| Vermont | 5,327 | 8,137 | $48K |
| District of Columbia | 4,190 | 6,563 | $44.7K |
| Wyoming | 4,419 | 6,342 | $37.9K |
| Alaska | 2,725 | 3,966 | $25.8K |
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 SULFAMETHOXAZOLE-TRIMETHOPRIM
| Provider | Medicare Claims | City | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONNA KAMUDA APN |
Claims Filled512 |
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| RAMSEY HACHEM MD |
Claims Filled502 |
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| DAVID ROSS MD |
Claims Filled502 |
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| JOHN RICHARD M.D. |
Claims Filled499 |
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| KIM TIBALDI M.D. |
Claims Filled497 |
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| ELBERT TRULOCK MD |
Claims Filled496 |
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| RONALD PERROTT M.D. |
Claims Filled493 |
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| TAREK ALHAMAD MD |
Claims Filled490 |
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| JOHN GRIMALDI D.O. |
Claims Filled482 |
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| BRIAN CROTZER P.A. |
Claims Filled468 |
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| BRENT MILLER MD |
Claims Filled467 |
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| ERIKA LEASE M.D. |
Claims Filled458 |
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| MIROSLAW SMOGORZEWSKI M.D. |
Claims Filled457 |
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| HEATHER LEFKOWITZ MD |
Claims Filled452 |
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| SHIKHA MEHTA MD |
Claims Filled449 |
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| DAVID BURLESON M.D. |
Claims Filled449 |
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| FRANCIS WENG M.D. |
Claims Filled442 |
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| JOHN FRIEDEWALD MD |
Claims Filled441 |
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| DEBRA HEBERT NP |
Claims Filled433 |
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| NAVDEEP DHILLON MD |
Claims Filled430 |
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| ALEJANDRO DIEZ M.D. |
Claims Filled429 |
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| BORIS HAVKIN MD |
Claims Filled429 |
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| RICHARD FATICA MD |
Claims Filled425 |
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| HASSAN IBRAHIM M.B., B.S. |
Claims Filled420 |
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| DESIREE LAZ NP |
Claims Filled419 |