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

Mekinist

Trametinib Dimethyl Sulfoxide

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Part D claims

6,832

Prescriptions dispensed, refills included

Drug cost

$96,314,914

Paid at the pharmacy, in all

Prescribers

429

With 11 or more claims of it

In 2024, Medicare Part D recorded 6,832 claims for Mekinist (trametinib dimethyl sulfoxide) from 429 prescribers, at a total drug cost of $96.3 million paid at the pharmacy by Medicare, patients and others.

Where it is prescribed

By the prescriber's state · 45 states and territories
Part D claims for Mekinist by the state of the prescriber, 2024
State Relative to the most Prescribers Claims Drug cost
CA 68 1,110 $15,367,946
TX 35 671 $9,997,470
NY 32 541 $6,921,738
PA 25 457 $6,410,261
FL 27 366 $5,268,987
OH 17 258 $3,494,125
MI 14 235 $3,411,281
MA 13 193 $2,593,947
VA 14 189 $2,730,713
KY 10 172 $2,512,328
TN 13 172 $2,493,106
NJ 11 168 $2,282,023
MN 9 161 $1,936,139
GA 8 153 $2,460,324
KS 8 152 $2,301,991
The other 30 states and territories
State Prescribers Claims Drug cost
CT 9 143 $2,214,166
WI 9 139 $1,811,198
IN 8 128 $1,811,936
OR 6 121 $1,636,066
AZ 7 120 $1,922,967
NC 9 110 $1,581,837
IL 8 101 $1,310,926
MO 7 99 $1,388,641
CO 7 95 $1,339,588
MD 6 89 $1,370,314
WA 6 87 $996,471
AL 5 74 $1,000,208
NV 4 61 $922,818
LA 4 56 $902,927
SC 4 48 $725,223
ME 3 46 $529,674
OK 3 41 $586,339
DC 2 37 $576,266
AR 3 36 $566,600
WV 3 34 $443,801
HI 2 23 $356,996
ID 1 22 $287,269
DE 2 22 $336,973
IA 1 20 $330,721
SD 1 17 $242,188
AK 1 15 $246,432
PR 1 13 $206,696
XX 1 13 $206,663
NE 1 12 $112,094
MS 1 12 $168,536

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 15
Part D claims for Mekinist by prescriber specialty, 2024
Specialty Relative to the most Prescribers Claims Drug cost
Hematology-Oncology 219 3,209 $45,574,848
Medical Oncology 88 1,558 $21,988,397
Nurse Practitioner 42 649 $9,000,767
Internal Medicine 26 426 $6,372,898
Endocrinology 12 397 $5,760,227
Physician Assistant 13 200 $2,644,323
Pharmacist 6 87 $1,097,703
Hematology 7 87 $1,281,064
Gynecological Oncology 6 72 $1,033,592
Neurology 4 61 $549,045
Surgical Oncology 2 32 $394,264
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program 1 15 $211,755
Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy 1 14 $86,895
Pediatric Medicine 1 13 $210,339
Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist 1 12 $108,798

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
Mabel Ryder Endocrinology MN 65 $793,443 None on record
Eric Sherman Medical Oncology PA 63 $1,082,608 None on record
Priyanka Iyer Endocrinology TX 57 $881,168 None on record
Ramona Dadu Endocrinology TX 56 $757,760 None on record
Victoria Villaflor Medical Oncology CA 55 $826,223 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.

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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