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ESCITALOPRAM OXALATE

Escitalopram is used to treat depression and generalized anxiety disorder (excessive worry and tension that disrupts daily life and lasts for 6 months or longer). Source: National Library of Medicine

At a Glance: This Drug in 2015

8.02M
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 40 of 3395

$114M
Retail Cost

Rank: 234 of 3395

1,418,770
Patients

Rank: 59 of 3395

284,127
Prescribers

Rank: 64 of 3395

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61%

of people say

it's worth it

48%

of people say

it worked well

15%

of people say

it's a huge hassle

Alternatives:

Celexa Prozac Paxil Zoloft Cymbalta Effexor Wellbutrin Remeron Oleptro

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

N/A

2011

4.04M

2012

6.36M

2013

7.25M

2014

8.02M

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

N/A

2011

$397M

2012

$309M

2013

$153M

2014

$114M

2015

Average Patient Cost

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

N/A

2011

$151

2012

$65

2013

$49

2014

$37

2015

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
California	125,091	673,055	$8.94M
Florida	131,369	671,325	$8.34M
New York	95,760	530,581	$7.63M
Texas	99,656	512,137	$7.41M
Pennsylvania	74,755	438,052	$7.1M
Ohio	56,762	321,875	$5.44M
North Carolina	51,945	297,935	$3.63M
Illinois	52,575	295,562	$4.14M
New Jersey	50,415	271,510	$3.9M
Georgia	41,178	240,898	$2.93M
Michigan	46,102	233,573	$3.7M
Indiana	39,479	219,967	$3.3M
Missouri	33,558	199,477	$2.7M
Tennessee	36,078	198,763	$2.4M
Alabama	33,962	184,508	$2.61M
Louisiana	31,679	177,853	$2.55M
Virginia	32,617	174,873	$2.69M
Connecticut	28,710	168,305	$2.79M
South Carolina	27,360	158,952	$1.93M
Kentucky	26,138	149,243	$2.11M
Maryland	23,999	117,437	$1.94M
Iowa	18,412	115,819	$1.44M
Massachusetts	19,465	115,540	$2.16M
Arizona	24,783	112,886	$1.48M
Wisconsin	20,061	110,625	$1.58M
Oklahoma	17,946	102,118	$2.32M
Minnesota	18,784	102,089	$1.57M
Arkansas	17,061	100,591	$1.04M
Kansas	15,583	93,237	$1.18M
Mississippi	15,546	90,473	$1.01M
Washington	16,608	85,509	$1.16M
Colorado	16,085	83,000	$1.16M
Oregon	14,106	75,432	$1.07M
West Virginia	13,068	75,174	$1.08M
Nebraska	9,892	64,862	$698K
Maine	7,234	39,229	$661K
Rhode Island	5,821	38,094	$835K
Nevada	8,071	37,933	$425K
New Hampshire	6,462	37,447	$575K
Utah	7,417	35,407	$459K
Idaho	6,615	33,730	$546K
New Mexico	6,282	31,202	$519K
Delaware	5,130	22,659	$421K
North Dakota	3,568	21,695	$279K
South Dakota	3,319	21,119	$294K
Montana	3,943	20,867	$253K
Hawaii	3,672	18,421	$271K
Vermont	2,753	15,432	$235K
Wyoming	2,274	12,636	$146K
Alaska	1,100	9,656	$102K
District of Columbia	1,820	7,979	$113K

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 ESCITALOPRAM OXALATE

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
ROBERT MORTON MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled6,243	ADA	Oklahoma
JOHN RICHARD M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled4,078	LEXINGTON	Kentucky
EDILIA ROMAN MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled3,929	MIAMI	Florida
RICHARD SHERMAN DO Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled2,990	SIMPSONVILLE	South Carolina
BRUCE LEE M.D. Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled2,880	CALHOUN	Georgia
FADI SABA M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled2,768	ST PETERSBURG	Florida
TERENCE FRINKS M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled2,696	TUCKER	Georgia
BRAD WHITNEY MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled2,468	ASHEVILLE	North Carolina
MICHAEL BERNARDO MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled2,102	NEWBERRY	South Carolina
PEDRO MELCHOR MD Mental Health Counselor	Claims Filled2,069	MIAMI	Florida
ROBERTO HERNANDO MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled1,984	MIAMI	Florida
FRANK FLOCA MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled1,966	AUSTIN	Texas
ARA KADOYAN MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled1,916	GLENDALE	California
RIGOBERTO RODRIGUEZ M.D. Psychiatry	Claims Filled1,846	MIAMI	Florida
VINCENT DILELLA DO Family Medicine	Claims Filled1,744	DUNEDIN	Florida
ROBERT HARBAUGH M.D. Neurology	Claims Filled1,594	SANTA BARBARA	California
ASYA KUPISK MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled1,573	LOS ANGELES	California
ADOLPHUS LEWIS DO Family Medicine	Claims Filled1,565	FORT WORTH	Texas
JOSE LOPEZ M.D. Specialist	Claims Filled1,525	MIAMI	Florida
WILLIAM TAYLOR MD Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled1,515	DUBLIN	Georgia
DANIEL MEETZE MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,497	ASHEVILLE	North Carolina
FREDRICK SHORT DO Family Medicine	Claims Filled1,457	TONGANOXIE	Kansas
CAROL PEITZMAN M.D. Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatric/Mental Health	Claims Filled1,455	BLOOMINGTON	Minnesota
ANDREW COLMAN DO General Practice	Claims Filled1,388	WESTLAND	Michigan
VIVIAN ACEVEDO MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled1,381	BAYAMON	Puerto Rico