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BENICAR

OLMESARTAN MEDOXOMIL

Benicar (olmesartan) is an angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB). It lowers blood pressure by blocking a chemical that tightens the blood vessels. This allows more blood and oxygen to get to your heart and other organs. Source: Iodine

At a Glance: This Drug in 2016

1.37M
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 193 of 3393

$438M
Retail Cost

Rank: 73 of 3393

274,229
Patients

Rank: 250 of 3393

121,165
Prescribers

Rank: 214 of 3393

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65%

of people say

it's worth it

63%

of people say

it worked well

12%

of people say

it's a huge hassle

Alternatives:

Diovan Losartan Lisinopril

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

1.52M

2012

1.72M

2013

1.73M

2014

1.65M

2015

1.37M

2016

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$241M

2012

$315M

2013

$373M

2014

$434M

2015

$438M

2016

Average Patient Cost

Average amount that patients paid each year.

$855

2012

$981

2013

$1,126

2014

$1,370

2015

$1,595

2016

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
California	35,629	194,791	$58.3M
New York	25,805	140,568	$42.6M
Texas	24,035	110,347	$36.6M
Florida	21,599	97,618	$32.3M
Pennsylvania	16,891	85,708	$26.5M
New Jersey	14,326	63,915	$22.8M
Georgia	8,112	43,608	$12.7M
Illinois	9,055	41,062	$14M
North Carolina	6,868	35,197	$10.4M
Louisiana	5,951	35,016	$9.28M
Ohio	6,735	32,177	$10.5M
Missouri	5,557	30,411	$8.67M
Tennessee	6,061	29,033	$9.23M
Michigan	6,964	28,611	$11M
Indiana	5,824	26,787	$8.84M
Connecticut	6,024	26,056	$9.65M
Arizona	5,783	24,219	$8.8M
Virginia	5,047	24,140	$7.96M
South Carolina	4,745	23,353	$7.03M
Maryland	5,852	22,644	$9.31M
Mississippi	3,352	19,110	$4.93M
Kentucky	3,425	18,222	$5.29M
Massachusetts	3,672	16,652	$5.95M
West Virginia	3,141	16,067	$4.77M
Washington	3,364	15,005	$5.22M
Arkansas	2,532	13,564	$3.54M
Oklahoma	3,025	13,348	$4.44M
Alabama	2,814	13,109	$4.1M
Colorado	2,624	11,765	$3.94M
Kansas	2,254	11,329	$3.51M
Oregon	2,466	10,965	$3.75M
Iowa	1,885	10,792	$3.08M
Wisconsin	2,305	10,315	$3.7M
Nebraska	1,614	9,648	$2.64M
Nevada	1,797	7,523	$2.69M
New Mexico	1,292	5,607	$1.95M
Minnesota	1,090	4,955	$1.77M
Hawaii	1,100	4,665	$1.78M
Rhode Island	829	4,468	$1.33M
Delaware	1,119	4,171	$1.79M
Maine	961	3,986	$1.53M
Utah	962	3,959	$1.36M
Idaho	831	3,702	$1.21M
North Dakota	589	3,561	$992K
South Dakota	591	3,256	$987K
Montana	573	2,600	$867K
District of Columbia	569	2,382	$824K
New Hampshire	506	2,098	$778K
Vermont	446	1,891	$751K
Wyoming	407	1,822	$625K
Alaska	166	887	$267K

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 BENICAR

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
WEI SUN M.D. Nephrology	Claims Filled2,592	NEW YORK	New York
JAE YOO MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,523	LOS ANGELES	California
HENRY CHEN M.D Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,258	BROOKLYN	New York
HEW QUON M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,176	LOS ANGELES	California
GARY REZNIK MD Cardiovascular Disease	Claims Filled1,013	LOS ANGELES	California
LI LIU M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled1,005	MONTEREY PARK	California
MARK BARATS M.D. Nephrology	Claims Filled916	WEST HOLLYWOOD	California
XIAORONG HE M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled878	ELMHURST	New York
SANG BAIK Internal Medicine	Claims Filled810	LOS ANGELES	California
ZHAOYANG PAN M.D. General Practice	Claims Filled805	LOS ANGELES	California
HOMAYOUN SHARIM M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled798	BEVERLY HILLS	California
OSCAR CHIEN M.D. Specialist	Claims Filled729	SAN GABRIEL	California
LAN NGUYEN MD Endocrinology, Diabetes Metabolism	Claims Filled699	WESTMINSTER	California
ALEKSANDR ZASYPKIN MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled671	BROOKLYN	New York
MARINA KOVALEVSKY M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled638	LOS ANGELES	California
JAMES GREENBERG MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled623	SAN FRANCISCO	California
ROBERT CHAN MD Internal Medicine	Claims Filled613	ALHAMBRA	California
DONG SHIN M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled613	LOS ANGELES	California
SINGH BOUN MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled605	MONTEREY PARK	California
IRENE PERLOFF D.O., M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled601	BROOKLYN	New York
YOUNG-JIK LEE M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled600	LOS ANGELES	California
ANNA MILSTEIN M.D. Cardiovascular Disease	Claims Filled595	LOS ANGELES	California
GARBIS APELIAN MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled582	VAN NUYS	California
ELEONORA FEDONENKO M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled581	LOS ANGELES	California
OKSANA LEVITANSKY M.D. Internal Medicine	Claims Filled564	BROOKLYN	New York