Product Program year 2019 Source: CMS Open Payments

Fosamax

Drug Endocrinology

NDC 0006-0031-44

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General payments

$0

0 payments

Research payments

$23,903

2 payments

Through program year 2019, $0 in general payments and $23,903 in research payments were reported against Fosamax (Endocrinology).

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

1 row
Year Kind Amount Payments
2019 Research $23,903 2

Prescribed to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024

Part D claims

624

Prescriptions dispensed, refills included

Drug cost

$128,391

Paid at the pharmacy, in all

Medicare Part D drugs matched to FOSAMAX, 2024
Part D drug Name match Relative to the largest Prescribers Claims Drug cost
Fosamax Plus D Alendronate Sodium/Vitamin D3 Similar name 29 438 $89,705
Fosamax Alendronate Sodium Same name 13 186 $38,686

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 42 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
Richard Tran Internal Medicine CA 54 $11,197 No profile
Alexander Cohen Family Practice SC 38 $12,250 None on record
Syed Naqvi Internal Medicine CA 34 $7,116 None on record
Chelsea Lisk Nurse Practitioner OH 20 $4,380 None on record
Ramez Samuel Internal Medicine NJ 15 $3,000 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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2 research

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Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2019

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