Product Program year 2020 Source: CMS Open Payments

Nucala

Biological Respiratory

NDC 0173-0881-01

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General payments

$5,917,263

61,377 payments

Research payments

$10,651,014

1,443 payments

Through program year 2020, $5,917,263 in general payments and $10,651,014 in research payments were reported against Nucala (Respiratory).

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

4 rows
Year Kind Amount Payments
2020 General $2,656,882 24,394
2020 Research $2,338,989 1,049
2019 General $3,260,381 36,983
2019 Research $8,312,025 394

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2020
  1. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $5,917,263 61,377 payments
Top recipients General payments · program year 2020
  1. Jacqueline Eghrari-Sabet Allergy & Immunology · Vienna, VA $56,726 2% · 46 payments
  2. Michael Wechsler Pulmonary Disease · Denver, CO $55,293 2% · 46 payments
  3. Maeve Oconnor Allergy & Immunology · Charlotte, NC $36,713 1% · 38 payments
  4. Lee Clore Allergy & Immunology · Owensboro, KY $34,740 1% · 29 payments
  5. Geoffrey Chupp Pulmonary Disease · New Haven, CT $33,129 1% · 23 payments

The top 5 of the 100 largest recipients; each share is of general payments naming this product in 2020.

The top 25 recipients, free in the app

Specialties paid General payments · program year 2020
  1. Allergy & Immunology $1,003,789 39% · 1,333 practitioners
  2. Pulmonary Disease Internal Medicine $913,466 35% · 2,570 practitioners
  3. Allergy Allergy & Immunology $191,524 7% · 284 practitioners
  4. Allergy & Immunology Internal Medicine $112,683 4% · 102 practitioners
  5. Otolaryngology $78,353 3% · 145 practitioners

The top 5 of 85 specialties; each share is of general payments naming this product to practitioners with a specialty in 2020. Each practitioner is counted under their primary specialty.

The top 25 specialties, free in the app

Where the money went General payments · program year 2020
  1. Florida $261,044 10% · 498 recipients
  2. California $235,957 9% · 524 recipients
  3. New York $223,262 8% · 602 recipients
  4. Michigan $176,428 7% · 201 recipients
  5. Pennsylvania $158,724 6% · 304 recipients

The top 5 of 51 states; each share is of general payments naming this product in 2020 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

57,845

Prescriptions dispensed, refills included

Drug cost

$248,787,540

Paid at the pharmacy, in all

Prescribers

2,641

With 11 or more claims of it

Medicare Part D drugs matched to NUCALA, 2024
Part D drug Name match Relative to the largest Prescribers Claims Drug cost
Nucala Mepolizumab Same name 2,641 57,845 $248,787,540

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
Alec Steils Nurse Practitioner IA 203 $911,904 None on record
Vivek Sambhara Pulmonary Disease GA 187 $779,059 $23,381
Anne Holly Physician Assistant NY 179 $1,101,753 None on record
James Lampasso Pulmonary Disease NY 179 $690,513 $11,199
Matthew Varner Pulmonary Disease SC 169 $604,914 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.

See more in the dashboard: 25 with a free account, all 100 with Patron

Given in the clinic

Part B · billing code
Medicare Part B billing codes matched to NUCALA
Billing code Providers Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, mepolizumab, 1 mg J2182 199 1,684,156 $39,614,379

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.

61,377 general · 1,443 research

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Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2020

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