Medicare Part D drug Data year 2024 Brand name Source: CMS Part D Prescribers

Concerta

Methylphenidate Hcl

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Part D claims

7,289

Prescriptions dispensed, refills included

Drug cost

$3,750,224

Paid at the pharmacy, in all

Prescribers

513

With 11 or more claims of it

In 2024, Medicare Part D recorded 7,289 claims for Concerta (methylphenidate hcl) from 513 prescribers, at a total drug cost of $3.8 million paid at the pharmacy by Medicare, patients and others.

Where it is prescribed

By the prescriber's state · 49 states and territories
Part D claims for Concerta by the state of the prescriber, 2024
State Relative to the most Prescribers Claims Drug cost
NY 38 586 $283,390
PA 31 496 $227,082
MA 33 446 $232,754
WI 29 412 $235,953
MN 24 380 $223,972
CA 27 362 $209,346
NJ 21 332 $154,449
IL 23 317 $188,834
NC 18 274 $163,754
MD 19 256 $144,245
TX 17 237 $145,406
MI 18 234 $108,446
FL 19 226 $106,050
CT 16 225 $121,658
GA 10 189 $102,758
The other 34 states and territories
State Prescribers Claims Drug cost
WA 12 164 $71,963
ME 9 152 $56,357
MO 11 142 $68,764
AZ 10 139 $60,883
RI 9 128 $59,946
OH 9 119 $71,073
VA 9 114 $52,640
IA 7 111 $44,803
VT 6 97 $46,607
UT 6 94 $51,453
IN 6 90 $37,372
ID 6 90 $42,165
SC 6 85 $39,550
TN 7 82 $42,359
OR 7 81 $43,204
KY 5 63 $27,893
KS 5 61 $31,952
NH 5 58 $30,895
CO 4 55 $27,746
NV 4 47 $22,192
MT 4 46 $32,652
WY 3 39 $17,324
DE 3 35 $14,572
ND 2 33 $13,098
OK 2 25 $9,267
LA 2 25 $9,803
AR 2 24 $12,513
WV 2 24 $10,565
SD 1 24 $9,600
AL 2 23 $9,397
NE 1 13 $10,279
AK 1 12 $9,799
MS 1 11 $8,345
HI 1 11 $5,093

The state is where the prescriber practices, not where the patient lives. Totals are Medicare Part D claims only.

Which specialties prescribe it

Top 15 of 24
Part D claims for Concerta by prescriber specialty, 2024
Specialty Relative to the most Prescribers Claims Drug cost
Psychiatry 169 2,503 $1,326,287
Nurse Practitioner 130 1,793 $877,976
Family Practice 57 750 $383,581
Psychiatry & Neurology 45 670 $321,870
Internal Medicine 38 491 $241,223
Physician Assistant 23 298 $150,833
Neuropsychiatry 12 198 $115,765
Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist 10 170 $88,095
Neurology 8 94 $54,550
Pediatric Medicine 3 89 $50,766
Geriatric Medicine 3 49 $41,493
General Practice 2 25 $15,261
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2 25 $10,813
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program 1 14 $5,801
Geriatric Psychiatry 1 13 $5,115

Specialty is the one printed on each prescriber's Medicare claims.

Largest prescribers

First 5 of 100 by claims · 2024

Two separate records. Claims come from Medicare and related payments from Open Payments. They are shown in one row because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

The prescribers with the most Part D claims of this drug in 2024
Prescriber Specialty State Claims Drug cost Related payments
Donald Rauh Psychiatry & Neurology PA 58 $26,537 None on record
Doris Greenberg Pediatric Medicine GA 55 $35,967 None on record
Edward Sathoff Psychiatry MN 54 $36,144 None on record
Miriam Graham Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist MA 51 $28,458 No profile
Bryan Carleton Nurse Practitioner MN 39 $16,902 None on record

"No profile" means the prescriber has no Open Payments record here; "None on record" means no payment naming this product in the payment year. Related payments are general payments, and one that names several products is split evenly, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it. The list is the prescribers with the most claims, up to 100 per drug.

See more in the dashboard: 25 with a free account, all 100 with Patron

Industry payments naming this drug

From CMS Open Payments

Open Payments names products as manufacturers reported them, and CMS does not link them to Part D drugs, so this match is by name and ours. The two records are separate: they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Other names for methylphenidate hcl

What this means

Medicare Part D is the part of Medicare that covers prescription drugs dispensed at a pharmacy. Each year CMS publishes, for every prescriber and drug, how many claims were dispensed and what they cost. This page adds those up for one drug.

A claim is one prescription filled, refills included. Drug cost is the total paid at the pharmacy by Medicare, the patient and anyone else; it is not money to the prescriber. CMS leaves out any prescriber with fewer than 11 claims of a drug, so the prescriber count is a floor and a missing prescriber does not mean none.

Part D covers drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries at a pharmacy. It does not include drugs given in a clinic or hospital, patients with other insurance, or the most recent year, which Medicare publishes about two years behind.

Provenance

Source: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider and Drug · data year 2024

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