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

Diltiazem 24hr Er (La)

Diltiazem Hcl

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Part D claims

69,344

Prescriptions dispensed, refills included

Drug cost

$4,259,665

Paid at the pharmacy, in all

Prescribers

3,619

With 11 or more claims of it

In 2024, Medicare Part D recorded 69,344 claims for Diltiazem 24hr Er (La) (diltiazem hcl) from 3,619 prescribers, at a total drug cost of $4.3 million paid at the pharmacy by Medicare, patients and others.

Where it is prescribed

By the prescriber's state · 51 states and territories
Part D claims for Diltiazem 24hr Er (La) by the state of the prescriber, 2024
State Relative to the most Prescribers Claims Drug cost
NY 341 6,955 $431,160
FL 277 4,759 $321,181
PA 191 3,805 $214,174
OH 185 3,771 $217,961
TX 202 3,614 $245,470
IN 137 3,570 $154,524
NJ 166 3,255 $208,508
CA 189 3,109 $218,841
MO 135 3,033 $151,260
MA 106 2,469 $117,916
IL 120 2,425 $120,613
NC 131 2,243 $142,009
CT 82 2,115 $95,280
AR 79 1,651 $83,469
AZ 93 1,619 $131,228
The other 36 states and territories
State Prescribers Claims Drug cost
MI 97 1,607 $140,154
AL 80 1,427 $112,078
VA 83 1,406 $79,429
GA 70 1,272 $79,204
TN 64 1,160 $78,465
MD 64 1,090 $90,506
KY 55 1,035 $64,774
KS 52 1,024 $52,032
SC 49 888 $55,914
WA 51 874 $56,117
WI 49 855 $55,306
LA 52 840 $52,883
OK 47 837 $57,082
IA 46 735 $48,570
DE 31 542 $41,806
DC 10 472 $39,589
NH 21 469 $20,794
OR 30 446 $29,411
NE 25 422 $26,008
WV 18 421 $19,416
CO 25 399 $19,193
RI 22 374 $29,756
VT 14 338 $20,746
MS 17 290 $13,061
PR 16 264 $25,227
MN 19 250 $19,959
ID 13 217 $13,094
NV 12 196 $11,961
NM 13 191 $11,197
ME 8 124 $6,568
MT 5 96 $6,024
SD 7 91 $4,868
ND 6 91 $7,396
AK 5 80 $9,319
WY 5 76 $4,358
UT 4 52 $3,808

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 38
Part D claims for Diltiazem 24hr Er (La) by prescriber specialty, 2024
Specialty Relative to the most Prescribers Claims Drug cost
Internal Medicine 957 20,240 $1,000,479
Family Practice 740 14,635 $736,536
Cardiology 750 13,448 $1,218,157
Nurse Practitioner 539 8,750 $511,356
Interventional Cardiology 164 3,054 $254,910
Physician Assistant 129 2,064 $126,912
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology 108 1,908 $162,568
Geriatric Medicine 59 1,381 $58,016
Hospitalist 37 896 $31,477
Nephrology 28 541 $30,774
General Practice 28 536 $30,849
Emergency Medicine 17 414 $17,644
General Surgery 5 282 $18,068
Hospice and Palliative Care 9 265 $10,892
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 6 146 $6,685

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
Cleveland Williams General Surgery DC 210 $14,364 None on record
Brandon Roscoe Family Practice PA 194 $6,010 None on record
Gary Miller Internal Medicine CT 189 $3,300 None on record
Andrew Offerle Emergency Medicine IN 148 $3,669 None on record
Shankaran Srikanth Internal Medicine IN 139 $2,530 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

Other names for diltiazem 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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