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ESCITALOPRAM OXALATE

Lexapro (escitalopram) is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant. It increases serotonin in the brain which regulates mood. Source: Iodine *

*This description is for related drug Lexapro

At a Glance: This Drug in 2016

8.75M
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 35 of 3393

$133M
Retail Cost

Rank: 230 of 3393

1,562,270
Patients

Rank: 55 of 3393

297,390
Prescribers

Rank: 64 of 3393

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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

3.9M

2012

6.32M

2013

7.24M

2014

8.02M

2015

8.19M

2016

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$382M

2012

$307M

2013

$153M

2014

$114M

2015

$122M

2016

Average Patient Cost

Average amount that patients paid each year.

$477

2012

$282

2013

$121

2014

$80

2015

$81

2016

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
California	137,819	732,150	$10.2M
Florida	143,939	715,876	$9.88M
New York	104,409	579,778	$8.14M
Texas	109,145	551,616	$8.78M
Pennsylvania	82,797	483,843	$8.31M
Ohio	62,308	362,296	$6M
North Carolina	56,789	324,087	$4.75M
Illinois	57,621	318,445	$5.3M
New Jersey	54,148	288,878	$4.68M
Georgia	45,937	274,508	$3.79M
Michigan	50,839	257,155	$4.46M
Indiana	44,137	244,352	$4M
Tennessee	40,810	219,115	$2.9M
Missouri	35,660	207,908	$3.62M
Alabama	36,546	195,271	$2.44M
Virginia	35,950	192,783	$3.24M
Louisiana	33,759	187,024	$2.42M
Connecticut	30,833	178,434	$3.3M
Kentucky	29,103	171,836	$2.42M
South Carolina	29,975	168,724	$2.38M
Massachusetts	24,106	141,141	$1.93M
Maryland	26,387	129,718	$2.46M
Arizona	28,494	127,317	$1.99M
Wisconsin	23,276	125,630	$2.07M
Iowa	20,137	124,066	$2.03M
Minnesota	21,302	117,385	$1.91M
Oklahoma	19,867	111,890	$1.62M
Arkansas	18,384	107,021	$1.22M
Kansas	16,546	97,907	$1.7M
Mississippi	17,302	97,636	$1.18M
Washington	18,747	92,908	$1.46M
Colorado	18,410	92,376	$1.4M
Oregon	15,863	82,194	$1.25M
West Virginia	13,911	80,485	$1.21M
Nebraska	10,861	71,447	$971K
Rhode Island	6,732	43,027	$692K
Nevada	9,120	41,585	$605K
New Hampshire	7,217	41,417	$697K
Utah	8,632	40,342	$620K
Maine	7,807	39,983	$842K
Idaho	7,339	37,264	$613K
New Mexico	6,926	33,404	$602K
North Dakota	3,841	25,668	$324K
Delaware	5,767	25,285	$668K
South Dakota	3,807	24,063	$318K
Montana	4,616	23,611	$321K
Hawaii	3,865	18,935	$273K
Vermont	2,959	16,033	$229K
Wyoming	2,584	13,781	$206K
Alaska	1,248	8,516	$136K
District of Columbia	2,009	8,495	$157K

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 2016 includes more than 1.5 billion prescriptions written by 1.1 million doctors, nurses and other providers. This database lists over 460,000 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 Filled6,200	ADA	Oklahoma
JOHN RICHARD M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled4,723	LEXINGTON	Kentucky
EDILIA ROMAN MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled4,499	MIAMI	Florida
WYATT BLAKE MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled3,870	MONTICELLO	Georgia
PEDRO MELCHOR MD Mental Health Counselor	Claims Filled3,768	MIAMI	Florida
RALPH WARNOCK M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled3,760	THOMASTON	Georgia
TERENCE FRINKS M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled3,380	TUCKER	Georgia
RICHARD SHERMAN DO Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled3,299	SIMPSONVILLE	South Carolina
BRUCE LEE M.D. Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled2,950	CALHOUN	Georgia
MICHAEL BERNARDO MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled2,919	NEWBERRY	South Carolina
FADI SABA M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled2,708	ST PETERSBURG	Florida
WILLIAM TAYLOR MD Geriatric Medicine	Claims Filled2,272	DUBLIN	Georgia
ALEXANDER FRANK M.D. Family Medicine	Claims Filled2,212	OKLAHOMA CITY	Oklahoma
VINCENT DILELLA DO Family Medicine	Claims Filled2,011	DUNEDIN	Florida
ARA KADOYAN MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled1,914	GLENDALE	California
DA WANG M.D. Psychiatry	Claims Filled1,885	FLUSHING	New York
JOSE LOPEZ M.D. Specialist	Claims Filled1,878	MIAMI	Florida
ADOLPHUS LEWIS DO Family Medicine	Claims Filled1,783	FORT WORTH	Texas
ASHOK KANCHARLA M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,779	ROYSTON	Georgia
FRANK FLOCA MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled1,730	AUSTIN	Texas
ROBERTO HERNANDO MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled1,706	MIAMI	Florida
KATHERINE YUDIN NP Nurse Practitioner	Claims Filled1,706	MISSION VIEJO	California
VIVIAN ACEVEDO MD Psychiatry	Claims Filled1,671	BAYAMON	Puerto Rico
FREDRICK SHORT DO Family Medicine	Claims Filled1,630	TONGANOXIE	Kansas
SCOTT KEFFER DO Family Medicine	Claims Filled1,621	ANSTED	West Virginia