Product Program year 2025 Source: CMS Open Payments

Otezla

Drug Inflammation

NDC 55513-137-60

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General payments

$40,411,964

763,010 payments

Research payments

$49,521,321

2,270 payments

Through program year 2025, $40,411,964 in general payments and $49,521,321 in research payments were reported against Otezla (Inflammation).

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 General $6,843,263 177,420
2025 Research $2,063,985 104
2024 General $8,745,484 177,089
2024 Research $3,323,775 148
2023 General $8,132,461 145,142
2023 Research $1,750,500 79
2022 General $6,465,163 120,352
2022 Research $4,698,227 206
2021 General $5,923,613 97,981
2021 Research $18,942,990 487
2020 General $4,301,905 45,025
2020 Research $18,741,844 1,246
2019 General $76 1

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Amgen Inc. $40,411,964 763,010 payments
Top recipients General payments · program year 2025
  1. Rebecca Smith Dermatology · Fort Mill, SC $93,270 1% · 88 payments
  2. Brian Forrest Family Medicine · Apex, NC $85,257 1% · 147 payments
  3. Rajiv Nathoo Dermatology · Maitland, FL $82,217 1% · 77 payments
  4. Omar Noor Somerset, NJ $79,877 1% · 56 payments
  5. Jana Johnson Dermatology · Sioux Falls, SD $76,763 1% · 58 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. Dermatology $2,517,671 38% · 4,499 practitioners
  2. Rheumatology Internal Medicine $860,830 13% · 2,190 practitioners
  3. Family Medicine $722,625 11% · 10,690 practitioners
  4. Physician Assistant $579,226 9% · 6,189 practitioners
  5. Nurse Practitioner, Family Nurse Practitioner $564,293 9% · 8,600 practitioners

The top 5 of 140 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 $755,638 11% · 4,224 recipients
  2. Florida $661,866 10% · 4,990 recipients
  3. Texas $558,660 8% · 4,797 recipients
  4. New York $508,880 7% · 3,253 recipients
  5. New Jersey $327,659 5% · 1,521 recipients

The top 5 of 54 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

163,042

Prescriptions dispensed, refills included

Drug cost

$789,471,953

Paid at the pharmacy, in all

Prescribers

7,380

With 11 or more claims of it

Medicare Part D drugs matched to Otezla, 2024
Part D drug Name match Relative to the largest Prescribers Claims Drug cost
Otezla Apremilast Same name 7,380 163,042 $789,471,953

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
Michael Rezaian Rheumatology WV 411 $2,022,300 None on record
Jamiel Ramos Nurse Practitioner TX 379 $1,916,776 None on record
Laura Howe Rheumatology CO 251 $1,232,615 $37
Cynthia Villanueva Ramos Family Practice TX 241 $1,123,978 $137
Elvin Garcia Rheumatology TX 211 $1,067,509 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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763,010 general · 2,270 research

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Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

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