Product Program year 2019 Source: CMS Open Payments

Meropenem

Drug Infections and Infectious Diseases

NDC 63323-508-30

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General payments

$0

0 payments

Research payments

$4,525

8 payments

Through program year 2019, $0 in general payments and $4,525 in research payments were reported against Meropenem (Infections and Infectious Diseases).

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 $4,525 8

Prescribed to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024

Part D claims

58,547

Prescriptions dispensed, refills included

Drug cost

$11,316,546

Paid at the pharmacy, in all

Medicare Part D drugs matched to Meropenem, 2024
Part D drug Name match Relative to the largest Prescribers Claims Drug cost
Meropenem Same name 2,166 54,477 $10,127,155
Meropenem-0.9% Nacl Meropenem-0.9% Sodium Chloride Similar name 196 4,070 $1,189,390

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 197 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
Donald Plummer Internal Medicine AL 554 $117,217 None on record
William Lewis Infectious Disease OK 245 $47,557 No profile
Peter Okwuasaba Infectious Disease OK 239 $36,635 None on record
Jessica Afarin Nurse Practitioner IL 218 $37,962 None on record
Cedric Spak Infectious Disease TX 212 $35,858 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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Given in the clinic

Part B · billing code
Medicare Part B billing codes matched to Meropenem
Billing code Providers Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, meropenem, 100 mg J2185 26 154,164 $45,113

Drugs given by a clinician are billed to Medicare Part B, not Part D. The product is tied to a billing code through the NDC on CMS's crosswalk, which was published for a later quarter than the payments, so a code that changed in between can be missed. Providers with fewer than 11 patients for the code are not published. Medicare's payment here is what it paid for the services, to the billing practice.

8 research

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Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2019

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