Product Program year 2020 Source: CMS Open Payments

Welchol

Drug Metabolism

NDC 65597-701-18

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General payments

$22,010

41 payments

Research payments

$0

0 payments

Through program year 2020, $22,010 in general payments and $0 in research payments were reported against Welchol (Metabolism).

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
2020 General $10,465 9
2019 General $11,545 32

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2020
  1. Daiichi Sankyo Inc. $22,010 41 payments
Top recipients General payments · program year 2020
  1. Michael Gottschalk Pediatric Endocrinology · San Diego, CA $5,425 52% · 2 payments
  2. Philip Zeitler Pediatric Endocrinology · Aurora, CO $1,925 18% · 2 payments
  3. Mitchell Geffner Pediatric Endocrinology · Los Angeles, CA $1,225 12% · 2 payments
  4. Sonia Caprio Pediatric Endocrinology · New Haven, CT $1,200 11% · 1 payment
  5. Michael Tansey Pediatric Endocrinology · Iowa City, IA $460 4% · 1 payment

The top 5 of 6 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. Pediatric Endocrinology Pediatrics $10,465 100% · 6 practitioners

Each share is of general payments naming this product to practitioners with a specialty in 2020. Each practitioner is counted under their primary specialty.

Where the money went General payments · program year 2020
  1. California $6,650 64% · 2 recipients
  2. Colorado $1,925 18% · 1 recipient
  3. Connecticut $1,200 11% · 1 recipient
  4. Iowa $460 4% · 1 recipient
  5. Oklahoma $230 2% · 1 recipient

Each share is of general payments naming this product in 2020 where a state was reported.

Prescribed to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024

Part D claims

894

Prescriptions dispensed, refills included

Drug cost

$609,727

Paid at the pharmacy, in all

Prescribers

54

With 11 or more claims of it

Medicare Part D drugs matched to Welchol, 2024
Part D drug Name match Relative to the largest Prescribers Claims Drug cost
Welchol Colesevelam Hcl Same name 54 894 $609,727

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 54 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 Barrett Family Practice SC 84 $102,967 None on record
Ilya Burshteyn Internal Medicine NY 60 $40,948 None on record
Thomas Rosson Internal Medicine AR 33 $1,375 None on record
Semyon Kostko Internal Medicine NY 29 $18,555 None on record
Stella Ilyayeva Internal Medicine NY 26 $21,083 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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41 general

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Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2020

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