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

Unithroid

Levothyroxine Sodium

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Part D claims

63,804

Prescriptions dispensed, refills included

Drug cost

$2,784,855

Paid at the pharmacy, in all

Prescribers

1,614

With 11 or more claims of it

In 2024, Medicare Part D recorded 63,804 claims for Unithroid (levothyroxine sodium) from 1,614 prescribers, at a total drug cost of $2.8 million paid at the pharmacy by Medicare, patients and others.

Where it is prescribed

By the prescriber's state · 41 states and territories
Part D claims for Unithroid by the state of the prescriber, 2024
State Relative to the most Prescribers Claims Drug cost
FL 240 9,693 $512,265
TX 220 8,726 $401,772
PA 114 5,484 $119,851
NJ 90 4,430 $139,613
IL 73 3,651 $130,529
NY 112 3,515 $133,125
CT 57 3,236 $124,859
VA 82 3,224 $143,152
GA 80 2,614 $92,644
IN 61 2,495 $113,454
OH 65 2,376 $91,076
NC 53 2,304 $154,294
LA 47 2,060 $138,298
MI 37 1,675 $51,323
AZ 42 1,163 $52,708
The other 26 states and territories
State Prescribers Claims Drug cost
CO 33 1,003 $61,844
SC 27 970 $72,378
MD 31 863 $34,112
TN 23 515 $35,268
CA 19 500 $39,262
KS 12 421 $15,041
RI 6 387 $7,612
MA 13 373 $15,160
KY 12 341 $15,037
MO 8 306 $11,712
WV 9 285 $22,986
MS 8 262 $19,077
AL 11 258 $10,364
DC 3 164 $6,912
NH 5 142 $5,338
ME 4 94 $1,441
DE 3 63 $1,981
VT 1 31 $840
NM 2 30 $1,562
NE 2 27 $1,745
SD 1 27 $931
WA 2 24 $1,841
OK 2 23 $1,895
WI 2 23 $1,484
NV 1 15 $14
UT 1 11 $57

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 17
Part D claims for Unithroid by prescriber specialty, 2024
Specialty Relative to the most Prescribers Claims Drug cost
Endocrinology 802 38,470 $1,621,899
Internal Medicine 257 8,244 $278,623
Nurse Practitioner 250 7,125 $396,508
Family Practice 155 4,116 $215,858
Physician Assistant 116 3,873 $193,881
Otolaryngology 2 998 $32,890
Specialist 5 320 $9,866
General Practice 11 210 $13,290
Pulmonary Disease 1 123 $7,632
Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist 4 102 $2,172
Obstetrics & Gynecology 1 62 $2,173
Hospitalist 4 57 $2,920
Infectious Disease 1 32 $568
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program 2 27 $4,506
Pharmacist 1 18 $1,491

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
Regina Walker Otolaryngology IL 943 $30,929 $153
Juanito Uy Endocrinology IN 556 $33,435 None on record
Raphaelle Vallera Endocrinology TX 555 $24,971 $50
Wasim Deeb Endocrinology FL 471 $19,308 $298
Sheldon Stoffer Endocrinology MI 417 $14,248 $68

"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 levothyroxine sodium

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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