Product Program year 2025 Source: CMS Open Payments

Belsomra

Drug Neuroscience

NDC 0006-0335-30

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General payments

$2,896,682

182,002 payments

Research payments

$7,751,864

143 payments

Through program year 2025, $2,896,682 in general payments and $7,751,864 in research payments were reported against Belsomra (Neuroscience).

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

13 rows
Year Kind Amount Payments
2025 Research $1,994,218 19
2024 General $11 1
2024 Research $664,230 13
2023 General $560,459 31,524
2023 Research $753,881 9
2022 General $723,851 42,139
2022 Research $775,181 12
2021 General $821,031 51,654
2021 Research $755,789 16
2020 General $449,336 29,015
2020 Research $1,236,422 19
2019 General $341,995 27,669
2019 Research $1,572,142 55

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $2,896,682 182,002 payments
Top recipients General payments · program year 2024
  1. Brendan Lucey Neurology · Saint Louis, MO $11 100% · 1 payment

Each share is of general payments naming this product in 2024.

Specialties paid General payments · program year 2024
  1. Neurology Psychiatry & Neurology $11 100% · 1 practitioner

Each share is of general payments naming this product to practitioners with a specialty in 2024. Each practitioner is counted under their primary specialty.

Where the money went General payments · program year 2024
  1. Missouri $11 100% · 1 recipient

Each share is of general payments naming this product in 2024 where a state was reported.

Prescribed to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024

Part D claims

189,941

Prescriptions dispensed, refills included

Drug cost

$85,924,795

Paid at the pharmacy, in all

Prescribers

8,906

With 11 or more claims of it

Medicare Part D drugs matched to BELSOMRA, 2024
Part D drug Name match Relative to the largest Prescribers Claims Drug cost
Belsomra Suvorexant Same name 8,906 189,941 $85,924,795

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 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
Carmelo Herrero Lugo Psychiatry PR 521 $234,136 None on record
Robert Morton Psychiatry OK 437 $168,191 None on record
James Rini Neurology AL 386 $177,082 None on record
Jose Pagan Psychiatry TX 373 $165,340 None on record
Ernesto Zilberberg Psychiatry MA 348 $164,156 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.

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182,002 general · 143 research

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Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

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