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SERTRALINE HCL

Sertraline is used to treat depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (bothersome thoughts that won't go away and the need to perform certain actions over and over), panic attacks (sudden, unexpected attacks of extreme fear and worry about these attacks), posttraumatic stress disorder (disturbing psychological symptoms that develop after a frightening experience), and social anxiety disorder (extreme fear of interacting with others or performing in front of others that interferes with normal life). Source: National Library of Medicine

At a Glance: This Drug in 2015

12.4M
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 25 of 3395

$109M
Retail Cost

Rank: 244 of 3395

2,160,638
Patients

Rank: 42 of 3395

346,229
Prescribers

Rank: 43 of 3395

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59%

of people say

it's worth it

41%

of people say

it worked well

15%

of people say

it's a huge hassle

Alternatives:

Celexa Lexapro Prozac Paxil Pristiq Cymbalta Effexor Wellbutrin Remeron Oleptro

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

9.02M

2011

9.75M

2012

11.1M

2013

11.8M

2014

12.4M

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$130M

2011

$120M

2012

$138M

2013

$127M

2014

$109M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

$38

2011

$33

2012

$31

2013

$29

2014

$26

2015

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
California	167,268	850,671	$9.07M
Florida	164,726	808,075	$6.93M
New York	131,002	776,232	$6.67M
Texas	143,463	725,296	$6.04M
Pennsylvania	117,997	719,282	$5.96M
Ohio	105,043	593,382	$6.83M
North Carolina	80,168	458,899	$3.58M
Illinois	75,187	425,390	$3.84M
Michigan	83,489	414,906	$4.66M
Georgia	64,422	385,494	$2.77M
Tennessee	63,733	370,959	$2.74M
Massachusetts	55,526	341,205	$2.94M
Missouri	51,490	309,621	$2.5M
Indiana	52,942	288,072	$2.81M
New Jersey	52,235	277,681	$2.37M
Wisconsin	47,177	276,737	$2.59M
Virginia	51,187	273,306	$2.64M
Kentucky	43,786	269,824	$2.18M
Minnesota	43,726	237,669	$2.56M
Washington	42,506	226,521	$2.01M
Alabama	38,434	214,064	$1.61M
Arizona	40,721	200,475	$1.8M
South Carolina	35,831	192,720	$1.42M
Louisiana	31,909	185,851	$1.34M
Maryland	33,370	168,567	$1.69M
Iowa	25,622	163,003	$1.22M
Oregon	28,929	154,425	$1.5M
Connecticut	25,030	147,757	$1.45M
Arkansas	23,962	143,718	$932K
Kansas	22,877	137,737	$1.15M
Oklahoma	25,787	137,195	$1.19M
Colorado	27,043	135,892	$1.48M
Mississippi	22,219	132,687	$882K
West Virginia	20,250	118,320	$923K
Maine	17,876	94,511	$1.15M
Nebraska	13,828	91,597	$635K
Rhode Island	11,487	81,653	$625K
Utah	14,017	73,188	$650K
New Mexico	14,404	70,139	$568K
Nevada	13,526	64,534	$533K
New Hampshire	11,122	58,936	$557K
Idaho	10,951	56,271	$460K
North Dakota	8,290	51,837	$383K
South Dakota	6,729	42,291	$360K
Montana	6,723	37,251	$309K
Vermont	6,322	33,375	$287K
Delaware	7,035	32,528	$367K
Hawaii	3,988	19,205	$197K
Wyoming	3,281	18,347	$144K
District of Columbia	3,296	15,505	$131K
Alaska	1,628	13,876	$121K

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 SERTRALINE HCL

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
CHI TAI LAU M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled179	ZWOLLE	Louisiana
PAUL HAMORI MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled57	ZIONSVILLE	Indiana
PUJA SINGH MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled77	ZIONSVILLE	Indiana
J MCDANIEL MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled131	ZIONSVILLE	Indiana
LUIS ROMERO-CORTEZ M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled77	ZIONSVILLE	Indiana
CHAD O'NAN MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled83	ZIONSVILLE	Indiana
LAURENCE ADAMS MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled92	ZIONSVILLE	Indiana
CHANDRA OSTROGNAI MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled105	ZIONSVILLE	Indiana
DANIEL SHULL M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled59	ZIONSVILLE	Indiana
TODD PAXTON D.O. Family Medicine	Claims Filled56	ZION	Illinois
CLARENCE ENGSTROM MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled280	ZION	Illinois
DENNIS MCCREARY Family Medicine	Claims Filled51	ZION	Illinois
PAMELA FISHER MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled51	ZIMMERMAN	Minnesota
ROLAND MCKENDREE ARNP Nurse Practitioner, Family	Claims Filled70	ZEPHYRHILLS	Florida
SYLVIA HAZELWOOD ARNP-C Nurse Practitioner, Family	Claims Filled75	ZEPHYRHILLS	Florida
DEBORAH COX Nurse Practitioner, Family	Claims Filled98	ZEPHYRHILLS	Florida
DOMINIC GONZALEZ MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled73	ZEPHYRHILLS	Florida
DELISA HERON M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled96	ZEPHYRHILLS	Florida
ROSHAN MAHTANI MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled60	ZEPHYRHILLS	Florida
DAVID SIKES MD Rheumatology	Claims Filled125	ZEPHYRHILLS	Florida
SAMIR KAPOOR M.D. General Practice	Claims Filled163	ZEPHYRHILLS	Florida
IRIS BRACKEN ARNP-C Nurse Practitioner, Adult Health	Claims Filled204	ZEPHYRHILLS	Florida
DANIEL MCGRANE M.D., P.A. Specialist	Claims Filled140	ZEPHYRHILLS	Florida
HARRY BLACKSTONE DO Family Medicine	Claims Filled167	ZEPHYRHILLS	Florida
SALMA AKHTER DO Family Medicine	Claims Filled131	ZEPHYRHILLS	Florida