Product Program year 2019 Source: CMS Open Payments

Acthar

Biological Autoimmune And Rare Disease

NDC 63004-8710-1

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General payments

$7,124,292

33,058 payments

Research payments

$6,420,402

792 payments

Through program year 2019, $7,124,292 in general payments and $6,420,402 in research payments were reported against Acthar (Autoimmune And Rare Disease).

No combined total These are different kinds of money, reported under different rules. A meal and a clinical trial grant do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

By program year

2 rows
Year Kind Amount Payments
2019 General $7,124,292 33,058
2019 Research $6,420,402 792

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program year 2019
  1. Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC $7,124,292 33,058 payments
Top recipients General payments · program year 2019
  1. Monica Grafals Internal Medicine · Avon, CO $145,567 2% · 146 payments
  2. Arvind Madan Nephrology · Orlando, FL $127,715 2% · 185 payments
  3. Abdul Abdellatif Nephrology · Webster, TX $126,192 2% · 117 payments
  4. Stephen Anesi Ophthalmology · Waltham, MA $119,104 2% · 106 payments
  5. Daniel Kiernan Ophthalmology · Sarasota, FL $116,754 2% · 93 payments

The top 5 of the 100 largest recipients; each share is of general payments naming this product in 2019.

The top 25 recipients, free in the app

Specialties paid General payments · program year 2019
  1. Nephrology Internal Medicine $1,803,369 27% · 2,398 practitioners
  2. Rheumatology Internal Medicine $1,610,743 24% · 1,241 practitioners
  3. Pulmonary Disease Internal Medicine $1,081,978 16% · 1,229 practitioners
  4. Ophthalmology $725,919 11% · 912 practitioners
  5. Neurology Psychiatry & Neurology $535,005 8% · 1,255 practitioners

The top 5 of 115 specialties; each share is of general payments naming this product to practitioners with a specialty in 2019. Each practitioner is counted under their primary specialty.

The top 25 specialties, free in the app

Where the money went General payments · program year 2019
  1. New York $971,080 14% · 761 recipients
  2. California $701,924 10% · 785 recipients
  3. Texas $685,777 10% · 801 recipients
  4. Florida $650,250 9% · 827 recipients
  5. Pennsylvania $547,802 8% · 437 recipients

The top 5 of 51 states; each share is of general payments naming this product in 2019 where a state was reported.

The top 25 states, free in the app

Prescribed to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024

Part D claims

2,772

Prescriptions dispensed, refills included

Drug cost

$185,779,343

Paid at the pharmacy, in all

Medicare Part D drugs matched to ACTHAR, 2024
Part D drug Name match Relative to the largest Prescribers Claims Drug cost
Acthar Corticotropin Same name 150 2,740 $184,342,144
Acthar Selfject Corticotropin Similar name 2 32 $1,437,198

Matched to this product by name; CMS does not link its files to Open Payments, so a similar name can be a different strength, form or brand. Prescriber counts include only prescribers with 11 or more claims of the drug, because CMS publishes nothing below that. Part D covers drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries at a pharmacy; it does not include drugs given in a clinic or hospital, or patients with other insurance.

Largest prescribers

First 5 of 101 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
Stephen Anesi Ophthalmology MA 120 $8,145,418 $153,353
Triet Nguyen Ophthalmology CA 69 $5,800,983 $933
Arthur Mabaquiao Rheumatology CA 58 $3,002,153 $550
Anuradha Reddy Internal Medicine MD 48 $4,089,626 $576
Richard Jones Rheumatology AL 44 $2,797,003 $333

"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.

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33,058 general · 792 research

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Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2019

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