Product Program year 2025 Source: CMS Open Payments

Acthar

Biological Immunology

NDC 63004-8710-1

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General payments

$24,105,079

176,112 payments

Research payments

$10,371,462

623 payments

Through program year 2025, $24,105,079 in general payments and $10,371,462 in research payments were reported against Acthar (Immunology).

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

12 rows
Year Kind Amount Payments
2025 General $4,392,185 35,971
2025 Research $435,231 9
2024 General $4,545,130 32,335
2024 Research $968,345 8
2023 General $3,287,122 31,644
2023 Research $1,124,096 25
2022 General $4,697,165 31,562
2022 Research $1,512,924 87
2021 General $3,948,777 27,426
2021 Research $1,968,756 92
2020 General $3,234,699 17,174
2020 Research $4,362,111 402

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. $24,105,079 176,112 payments
Top recipients General payments · program year 2025
  1. John Sheppard Ophthalmology · Norfolk, VA $125,300 3% · 104 payments
  2. John Affeldt Ophthalmology · Loma Linda, CA $119,064 3% · 81 payments
  3. Steven Silverstein Ophthalmology · Kansas City, MO $114,406 3% · 60 payments
  4. Raji Ayinla Pulmonary Disease · Bronx, NY $113,565 3% · 93 payments
  5. Peter Chang Ophthalmology · Waltham, MA $109,594 2% · 107 payments

The top 5 of the 100 largest recipients; each share is of general payments naming this product in 2025.

The top 25 recipients, free in the app

Specialties paid General payments · program year 2025
  1. Ophthalmology $1,348,308 31% · 1,501 practitioners
  2. Rheumatology Internal Medicine $932,290 22% · 1,176 practitioners
  3. Nephrology Internal Medicine $434,863 10% · 1,425 practitioners
  4. Pulmonary Disease Internal Medicine $388,041 9% · 836 practitioners
  5. Optometrist $311,510 7% · 1,376 practitioners

The top 5 of 135 specialties; each share is of general payments naming this product to practitioners with a specialty in 2025. Each practitioner is counted under their primary specialty.

The top 25 specialties, free in the app

Where the money went General payments · program year 2025
  1. California $691,615 16% · 943 recipients
  2. New York $567,802 13% · 726 recipients
  3. Florida $452,200 10% · 1,437 recipients
  4. Massachusetts $247,598 6% · 116 recipients
  5. Texas $214,619 5% · 845 recipients

The top 5 of 53 states; each share is of general payments naming this product in 2025 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.

See more in the dashboard: 25 with a free account, all 101 with Patron
176,112 general · 623 research

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Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

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