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

Symbicort

Budesonide/Formoterol Fumarate

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Part D claims

1,351,885

Prescriptions dispensed, refills included

Drug cost

$416,509,047

Paid at the pharmacy, in all

Prescribers

52,022

With 11 or more claims of it

In 2024, Medicare Part D recorded 1,351,885 claims for Symbicort (budesonide/formoterol fumarate) from 52,022 prescribers, at a total drug cost of $416.5 million paid at the pharmacy by Medicare, patients and others.

Where it is prescribed

By the prescriber's state · 58 states and territories
Part D claims for Symbicort by the state of the prescriber, 2024
State Relative to the most Prescribers Claims Drug cost
FL 4,806 138,443 $43,001,088
NY 3,416 90,597 $26,536,083
TX 3,486 88,731 $28,199,051
NC 2,886 81,032 $24,265,430
OH 2,419 63,269 $19,655,256
MO 1,796 53,471 $16,140,486
GA 1,736 50,089 $15,303,509
IL 1,931 46,837 $14,782,546
CA 2,023 44,517 $13,415,537
MI 1,899 44,402 $13,683,963
VA 1,341 35,174 $11,355,547
WI 1,227 34,141 $10,676,223
TN 1,274 32,925 $10,447,493
KY 1,268 32,561 $10,238,254
IN 1,266 31,139 $10,279,416
The other 43 states and territories
State Prescribers Claims Drug cost
PA 1,408 31,099 $9,178,676
SC 1,064 27,615 $8,971,263
AZ 992 25,765 $8,486,299
MA 1,020 25,760 $7,518,044
LA 986 25,349 $7,389,604
WA 966 24,675 $7,803,650
CO 925 23,174 $8,017,893
AR 847 22,996 $6,664,020
AL 831 22,157 $6,530,423
WV 698 20,431 $6,756,388
NJ 820 19,678 $5,932,774
PR 466 19,420 $4,690,903
MS 714 19,320 $5,764,229
CT 687 18,037 $5,750,093
OK 735 17,678 $5,317,320
IA 584 14,977 $4,210,596
NM 429 12,449 $4,002,270
NV 435 11,367 $3,907,570
NE 487 11,331 $3,319,527
KS 462 9,923 $2,890,402
MD 392 8,569 $2,806,670
OR 397 8,439 $2,653,725
MN 408 8,080 $2,442,208
ME 347 7,976 $2,655,564
UT 347 7,905 $2,543,206
NH 261 6,242 $1,938,607
MT 225 5,063 $1,549,145
RI 193 4,975 $1,388,222
VT 188 4,245 $1,292,891
ID 201 3,842 $1,130,066
HI 160 3,365 $1,129,311
ND 127 2,761 $801,638
DE 107 2,633 $897,016
DC 86 2,406 $749,668
SD 109 2,245 $643,356
WY 84 1,493 $464,538
AK 46 923 $287,650
GU 6 76 $18,701
VI 4 70 $18,609
MP 1 13 $3,071
ZZ 1 12 $4,497
AP 1 12 $6,329
AE 1 11 $2,535

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 67
Part D claims for Symbicort by prescriber specialty, 2024
Specialty Relative to the most Prescribers Claims Drug cost
Family Practice 15,448 324,086 $99,603,370
Pulmonary Disease 5,777 288,361 $92,060,752
Internal Medicine 11,801 274,301 $83,286,377
Nurse Practitioner 11,237 269,713 $81,617,262
Physician Assistant 3,355 77,129 $23,582,783
Allergy/ Immunology 1,416 42,799 $13,912,236
Critical Care (Intensivists) 640 25,215 $8,101,870
General Practice 821 18,836 $5,306,006
Geriatric Medicine 219 4,562 $1,270,089
Hospitalist 203 4,468 $1,329,014
Emergency Medicine 167 3,701 $1,077,031
Pediatric Medicine 124 2,570 $776,769
Cardiology 125 2,491 $718,417
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program 163 2,456 $631,073
Sleep Medicine 50 1,651 $547,657

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
Jorge Sanchez-Masiques Pulmonary Disease FL 2,730 $644,314 None on record
Rafael Martinez Pulmonary Disease FL 1,095 $288,586 None on record
Jahaira Serrano Dominguez Pulmonary Disease PR 903 $214,552 None on record
Andres Redondo Pulmonary Disease FL 834 $200,776 None on record
Dragos Zanchi Pulmonary Disease FL 817 $228,543 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 budesonide/formoterol fumarate

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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