Product Program year 2024 Source: CMS Open Payments

Pulmicort Respules

Drug Respiratory

NDC 0186-1988-04

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General payments

$17,581

168 payments

Research payments

$0

0 payments

Through program year 2024, $17,581 in general payments and $0 in research payments were reported against Pulmicort Respules (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

6 rows
Year Kind Amount Payments
2024 General $439 17
2023 General $420 7
2022 General $64 4
2021 General $835 11
2020 General $442 26
2019 General $15,379 103

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. AstraZeneca UK Limited $12,355 34 payments
  2. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $5,226 134 payments
Top recipients General payments · program year 2024
  1. Raymond Townsend Nephrology · Philadelphia, PA $98 22% · 1 payment
  2. Vijaya Sarma Internal Medicine · Chicago, IL $32 7% · 1 payment
  3. Eden Brandon Internal Medicine · Chicago, IL $23 5% · 1 payment
  4. Benjamin Brewer Family Medicine · Forrest, IL $23 5% · 1 payment
  5. Lauren Lemenager Physician Assistant · Forrest, IL $23 5% · 1 payment

The top 5 of 17 recipients; each share is of general payments naming this product in 2024.

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Specialties paid General payments · program year 2024
  1. Internal Medicine $115 26% · 5 practitioners
  2. Nephrology Internal Medicine $98 22% · 1 practitioner
  3. Family Medicine $80 18% · 4 practitioners
  4. Nurse Practitioner, Family Nurse Practitioner $64 15% · 3 practitioners
  5. Physician Assistant $45 10% · 2 practitioners

The top 5 of 7 specialties; each share is of general payments naming this product to practitioners with a specialty in 2024. Each practitioner is counted under their primary specialty.

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Where the money went General payments · program year 2024
  1. Illinois $342 78% · 16 recipients
  2. Pennsylvania $98 22% · 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

183

Prescriptions dispensed, refills included

Drug cost

$115,898

Paid at the pharmacy, in all

Prescribers

9

With 11 or more claims of it

Medicare Part D drugs matched to PULMICORT RESPULES, 2024
Part D drug Name match Relative to the largest Prescribers Claims Drug cost
Pulmicort Budesonide Similar name 9 183 $115,898

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 9 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
Amanda English Nurse Practitioner TX 57 $43,780 None on record
Kamdin Poorkiyani General Practice TX 31 $24,101 No profile
Krishna Patel Pediatric Medicine NJ 24 $11,885 None on record
Saroj Sehgal Internal Medicine NJ 13 $3,989 None on record
Keino Rutherford Internal Medicine CA 12 $7,887 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 PULMICORT RESPULES
Billing code Providers Services Paid by Medicare
Budesonide, inhalation solution, fda-approved final product, non-compounded, administered through dme, unit dose form, up to 0.5 mg J7626 28 742 $619

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.

168 general

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Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2024

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