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

Generlac

Lactulose

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Part D claims

1,099

Prescriptions dispensed, refills included

Drug cost

$18,646

Paid at the pharmacy, in all

Prescribers

52

With 11 or more claims of it

In 2024, Medicare Part D recorded 1,099 claims for Generlac (lactulose) from 52 prescribers, at a total drug cost of $18,646 paid at the pharmacy by Medicare, patients and others.

Where it is prescribed

By the prescriber's state · 11 states and territories
Part D claims for Generlac by the state of the prescriber, 2024
State Relative to the most Prescribers Claims Drug cost
NY 28 747 $13,861
MI 13 167 $1,765
PA 2 32 $559
MD 2 28 $872
NJ 1 20 $212
KY 1 20 $103
FL 1 19 $109
UT 1 19 $427
ND 1 17 $185
VA 1 17 $386
MS 1 13 $166

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

Which specialties prescribe it

Top 10 of 10
Part D claims for Generlac by prescriber specialty, 2024
Specialty Relative to the most Prescribers Claims Drug cost
Internal Medicine 19 410 $6,753
Family Practice 14 366 $7,409
Nurse Practitioner 10 156 $2,765
Gastroenterology 1 43 $45
Physician Assistant 3 40 $441
Hospitalist 1 23 $297
Psychiatry 1 19 $427
Geriatric Medicine 1 15 $199
Allergy/ Immunology 1 14 $149
Emergency Medicine 1 13 $163

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

Largest prescribers

First 5 of 52 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
Rajiv Pasricha Family Practice NY 90 $1,897 None on record
Robert Plachy Family Practice NY 67 $1,614 No profile
Assen Bogdanov Internal Medicine NY 44 $655 None on record
Bangaruraju Kolanuvada Internal Medicine NY 43 $785 None on record
King-Chen Hon Gastroenterology NY 43 $45 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 52 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 lactulose

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

We reproduce what CMS published. We do not verify, edit or correct the underlying records.

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