Product Program year 2019 Source: CMS Open Payments

Vascepa

Drug Hypertriglyceridemia

NDC 52937-101-08

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General payments

$9,407,106

114,569 payments

Research payments

$246,221

7 payments

Through program year 2019, $9,407,106 in general payments and $246,221 in research payments were reported against Vascepa (Hypertriglyceridemia).

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

2 rows
Year Kind Amount Payments
2019 General $9,407,106 114,569
2019 Research $246,221 7

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program year 2019
  1. Amarin Pharma Inc. $9,407,106 114,569 payments
Top recipients General payments · program year 2019
  1. Eliot Brinton Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Salt Lake City, UT $194,568 2% · 322 payments
  2. John Nelson Internal Medicine · Fresno, CA $179,285 2% · 200 payments
  3. William Cromwell Family Medicine · Raleigh, NC $162,732 2% · 182 payments
  4. John Gerald Canto Cardiovascular Disease · Lakeland, FL $145,998 2% · 130 payments
  5. John Osborne Cardiovascular Disease · Grapevine, TX $134,702 1% · 147 payments

The top 5 of the 100 largest recipients; each share is of general payments naming this product in 2019.

The top 25 recipients, free in the app

Specialties paid General payments · program year 2019
  1. Cardiovascular Disease Internal Medicine $3,649,936 40% · 4,110 practitioners
  2. Internal Medicine $1,647,965 18% · 9,791 practitioners
  3. Family Medicine $1,314,205 14% · 11,802 practitioners
  4. Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Internal Medicine $1,299,521 14% · 1,315 practitioners
  5. Interventional Cardiology Internal Medicine $553,777 6% · 1,197 practitioners

The top 5 of 145 specialties; each share is of general payments naming this product to practitioners with a specialty in 2019. Each practitioner is counted under their primary specialty.

The top 25 specialties, free in the app

Where the money went General payments · program year 2019
  1. California $1,236,986 13% · 2,954 recipients
  2. New York $984,965 10% · 2,830 recipients
  3. Texas $893,053 9% · 3,317 recipients
  4. Florida $774,872 8% · 3,038 recipients
  5. Pennsylvania $528,742 6% · 1,932 recipients

The top 5 of 49 states; each share is of general payments naming this product in 2019 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

1,207,355

Prescriptions dispensed, refills included

Drug cost

$561,873,505

Paid at the pharmacy, in all

Prescribers

25,792

With 11 or more claims of it

Medicare Part D drugs matched to Vascepa, 2024
Part D drug Name match Relative to the largest Prescribers Claims Drug cost
Vascepa Icosapent Ethyl Same name 25,792 1,207,355 $561,873,505

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
Wei Sun Nephrology NY 7,033 $2,622,745 None on record
Hua Ding Internal Medicine NY 4,649 $1,582,439 None on record
David Lau Cardiology NY 4,572 $2,234,665 None on record
Xiaoqin Yin Family Practice NY 3,876 $1,341,564 None on record
Baoen Jiang Internal Medicine NY 3,740 $1,574,930 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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114,569 general · 7 research

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Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2019

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