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VALSARTAN-HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE
VALSARTAN/HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE
Treats high blood pressure. Source: National Library of Medicine
At a Glance: This Drug in 2015
Medicare Part D Claims
Rank: 103 of 3395
Retail Cost
Rank: 221 of 3395
Patients
Rank: 128 of 3395
Prescribers
Rank: 139 of 3395
This Drug's History
Claims
The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year
2011
579K
2012
3.23M
2013
3.46M
2014
3.27M
2015
Spending
The total Part D spending on this drug
each year
2011
$96.7M
2012
$335M
2013
$209M
2014
$124M
2015
Average Patient Cost
Average amount that patients without a low-income subsidy paid each year.
2011
$72
2012
$150
2013
$122
2014
$90
2015
Use by state
| State | Patients | Claims | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 58,125 | 312,088 | $11.2M |
| New York | 55,794 | 290,281 | $11.3M |
| Texas | 54,335 | 262,666 | $10.3M |
| Florida | 47,094 | 233,601 | $8.57M |
| Pennsylvania | 36,839 | 198,190 | $10.5M |
| New Jersey | 35,742 | 165,654 | $7.05M |
| North Carolina | 23,225 | 131,827 | $3.92M |
| Georgia | 21,183 | 123,221 | $4.04M |
| Ohio | 23,264 | 116,774 | $4.89M |
| Illinois | 23,255 | 116,490 | $4.4M |
| South Carolina | 16,873 | 97,065 | $3.09M |
| Louisiana | 13,765 | 83,683 | $2.27M |
| Virginia | 15,180 | 79,109 | $3.03M |
| Tennessee | 15,192 | 78,307 | $3.04M |
| Mississippi | 10,571 | 69,869 | $1.89M |
| Indiana | 14,110 | 67,541 | $2.78M |
| Alabama | 12,440 | 63,971 | $2.12M |
| Kentucky | 9,990 | 56,736 | $1.89M |
| Missouri | 9,050 | 51,408 | $1.63M |
| Michigan | 11,496 | 49,497 | $1.97M |
| Arkansas | 6,959 | 46,346 | $1.17M |
| Maryland | 10,505 | 43,166 | $2.12M |
| Connecticut | 9,438 | 43,096 | $2.13M |
| Oklahoma | 7,740 | 36,806 | $2.37M |
| Arizona | 8,069 | 34,504 | $1.56M |
| Wisconsin | 6,951 | 32,316 | $1.36M |
| Massachusetts | 6,458 | 30,838 | $1.47M |
| Iowa | 4,644 | 26,499 | $718K |
| West Virginia | 4,360 | 24,281 | $855K |
| Minnesota | 4,500 | 19,876 | $737K |
| Colorado | 4,372 | 19,620 | $765K |
| Kansas | 3,581 | 19,181 | $656K |
| Nebraska | 2,802 | 17,119 | $425K |
| Washington | 3,359 | 15,172 | $606K |
| Utah | 3,369 | 14,625 | $680K |
| Delaware | 3,368 | 12,813 | $758K |
| Nevada | 2,812 | 12,628 | $490K |
| Oregon | 2,658 | 11,935 | $470K |
| Rhode Island | 1,856 | 11,326 | $479K |
| New Mexico | 2,148 | 9,488 | $393K |
| Idaho | 1,721 | 7,808 | $337K |
| Hawaii | 1,439 | 7,299 | $339K |
| New Hampshire | 1,520 | 6,625 | $325K |
| Maine | 1,503 | 6,134 | $378K |
| South Dakota | 1,115 | 6,089 | $161K |
| District of Columbia | 1,229 | 5,434 | $241K |
| North Dakota | 1,067 | 5,290 | $162K |
| Montana | 931 | 4,429 | $139K |
| Wyoming | 604 | 2,763 | $106K |
| Alaska | 505 | 2,542 | $105K |
| Vermont | 555 | 2,342 | $108K |
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 VALSARTAN-HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE
| Provider | Medicare Claims | City | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSOVINAR TEKKELIAN M.D. |
Claims Filled1,986 |
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| JOSE RIVERA M.D. |
Claims Filled1,888 |
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| ARMINE NAZARYAN M.D. |
Claims Filled1,395 |
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| NOUNEH DANIELYAN M.D. |
Claims Filled1,370 |
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| JUNG BAE M.D. |
Claims Filled984 |
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| GARY REZNIK MD |
Claims Filled969 |
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| SANG BAIK |
Claims Filled968 |
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| RENE GARCIA M.D. |
Claims Filled926 |
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| MANVEL MAZMANYAN M.D. |
Claims Filled893 |
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| RAZMIK OHANJANIAN MD |
Claims Filled822 |
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| VARDUI ARUTYUNYAN MD |
Claims Filled821 |
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| RICARDO CIGARROA M.D. |
Claims Filled800 |
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| GISELLE DEBS M.D. |
Claims Filled791 |
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| DANIEL BASULTO MD |
Claims Filled772 |
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| HAGOP BEZIKIAN MD |
Claims Filled771 |
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| VLAD NUSINOVICH M.D. |
Claims Filled769 |
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| HERACH YADEGARIAN M.D. |
Claims Filled763 |
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| GILBERTO GASTELL M.D. |
Claims Filled738 |
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| RAFAYEL GEVORKIAN M.D. |
Claims Filled734 |
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| ARUTYUN TOPSAKALYAN MD |
Claims Filled731 |
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| FANNY RAMIREZ MD |
Claims Filled717 |
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| SERENA LEE M.D. |
Claims Filled717 |
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| LUANA CARCASSONI M.D. |
Claims Filled715 |
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| CIRO RAMIREZ M.D. |
Claims Filled709 |
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| GALINA VAYNER MD |
Claims Filled708 |