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#43 Drug: Tradjenta (Linagliptin)
Top prescriber in each state and DC based on Medicare Part D records.
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State-Level #1 Prescriber Table
Drug ranking is based on Medicare Part D drug spending in 2024 (Q1-Q4). Prescriber ranking is based on Medicare Part D prescriber data in 2023.
Top-100 rank metric for this drug: $1,127,633,749.19 total spending in 2024.
| State | Prescriber | NPI | Provider Type | Total Claims | Total Benes | Total Costs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Enrico Gaspar | 1497740492 | Internal Medicine | 357 | 36 | $103,389.31 |
| Alaska | Carlos Valenzuela | 1851389589 | Nurse Practitioner | 29 | — | $25,277.82 |
| Arizona | Jose Vega | 1881955169 | Family Practice | 103 | 33 | $127,065.80 |
| Arkansas | James Wilkerson | 1083934632 | Family Practice | 108 | 21 | $90,723.08 |
| California | Chinh Mai | 1992017636 | Internal Medicine | 809 | 100 | $475,755.11 |
| Colorado | Jameel Chohan | 1902052236 | Internal Medicine | 206 | 19 | $52,396.73 |
| Connecticut | Marc Raad | 1316085665 | Internal Medicine | 611 | 34 | $141,657.01 |
| Delaware | Ritu Rastogi | 1366438822 | Internal Medicine | 283 | 20 | $73,071.93 |
| District of Columbia | Ferdinand Chua | 1861474975 | Internal Medicine | 85 | 17 | $93,616.14 |
| Florida | Jones Cemelus | 1154782043 | General Practice | 447 | 45 | $227,159.44 |
| Georgia | Jarod Bailey | 1649432733 | Internal Medicine | 685 | 47 | $155,344.27 |
| Hawaii | Vicente Ramo | 1770536443 | Family Practice | 211 | 55 | $223,872.29 |
| Idaho | Michael Meza | 1134124506 | Family Practice | 186 | 11 | $49,103.68 |
| Illinois | Inessa Gelfand | 1528080637 | Endocrinology | 493 | 73 | $394,671.62 |
| Indiana | Ibrar Paracha | 1811157357 | Hospitalist | 834 | 65 | $212,642.44 |
| Iowa | Ronald Iverson | 1265407589 | Endocrinology | 103 | 16 | $86,843.30 |
| Kansas | Alisa Schmidt | 1003174814 | Geriatric Medicine | 246 | 17 | $77,510.52 |
| Kentucky | Leon Butler | 1689754822 | Internal Medicine | 342 | 31 | $87,454.81 |
| Louisiana | Mohammad Mousa | 1841383221 | Endocrinology | 380 | 31 | $109,132.14 |
| Maine | Hassan Abouleish | 1255300307 | Internal Medicine | 193 | 13 | $59,126.07 |
| Maryland | Jie He | 1124259353 | Endocrinology | 246 | 36 | $171,294.08 |
| Massachusetts | Ajay Anand | 1538237813 | Internal Medicine | 569 | 28 | $122,507.68 |
| Michigan | Mazen Alsaqa | 1982968244 | Internal Medicine | 351 | 51 | $292,580.30 |
| Minnesota | Clemencia Rasquinha | 1023021409 | Geriatric Medicine | 88 | — | $29,619.80 |
| Mississippi | Timothy Estes | 1285746511 | Family Practice | 901 | 45 | $174,299.96 |
| Missouri | Syed Hashmi | 1265537104 | Internal Medicine | 767 | 61 | $212,236.16 |
| Montana | Thomas Addison | 1871594754 | Internal Medicine | 76 | — | $14,219.79 |
| Nebraska | Arif Sattar | 1043253222 | Internal Medicine | 182 | 17 | $50,433.11 |
| Nevada | Imran Sheriff | 1659373678 | Family Practice | 142 | 50 | $188,140.67 |
| New Hampshire | Magued Rizkalla Hanna | 1538259502 | Internal Medicine | 81 | — | $24,816.60 |
| New Jersey | Joseph Conti | 1679552921 | Internal Medicine | 292 | 23 | $76,479.32 |
| New Mexico | George Lopez | 1225092927 | Internal Medicine | 109 | — | $21,117.66 |
| New York | Wei Sun | 1588633135 | Nephrology | 1,219 | 182 | $780,667.75 |
| North Carolina | Patrick O'brien | 1356374219 | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | 671 | 47 | $125,335.30 |
| North Dakota | Kendra Larsen | 1013354018 | Nurse Practitioner | 59 | — | $37,259.31 |
| Ohio | Rajesh Agarwal | 1285618579 | Internal Medicine | 303 | 35 | $123,683.29 |
| Oklahoma | Arvid Lade | 1255318168 | Internal Medicine | 479 | 44 | $136,941.00 |
| Oregon | Misael Marquez | 1922088426 | Internal Medicine | 85 | 16 | $53,392.09 |
| Pennsylvania | Robert Pearlstein | 1598788689 | Internal Medicine | 768 | 65 | $192,753.21 |
| Rhode Island | Shahzad Khurshid | 1881754281 | Internal Medicine | 390 | 26 | $94,388.84 |
| South Carolina | Vlastimil Smetka | 1497974273 | Hospitalist | 364 | 36 | $74,210.98 |
| South Dakota | Lindsey Palmer | 1295336279 | Nurse Practitioner | 62 | — | $25,966.32 |
| Tennessee | Elbert Hines | 1801896881 | Family Practice | 271 | 18 | $51,467.60 |
| Texas | Khoren Hekimian | 1588695423 | Family Practice | 679 | 51 | $176,573.78 |
| Utah | Casey Stelter | 1073607222 | Family Practice | 697 | 75 | $207,338.93 |
| Vermont | Jessica Notte | 1285026997 | Nurse Practitioner | 39 | — | $10,416.17 |
| Virginia | Linda Powers | 1013912583 | Internal Medicine | 216 | 32 | $150,747.73 |
| Washington | Su Yong Pak | 1437169372 | Internal Medicine | 219 | 38 | $137,449.70 |
| West Virginia | Mustafa Rahim | 1831289891 | Internal Medicine | 567 | 76 | $307,029.55 |
| Wisconsin | Aleksandar Rosich | 1972606028 | Internal Medicine | 262 | 23 | $70,213.96 |
| Wyoming | Richard Capener | 1225327000 | Family Practice | 53 | — | $16,305.25 |
Method Note
- Top 100 drugs are ranked by Tot_Spndng from CMS Part D drug spending data. Brand + generic pair is used for ranking and matching.
- For each state and DC, the #1 prescriber is selected by highest Tot_Drug_Cst for the same brand + generic pair, using the 2023 prescriber file.
- If a state has no matching record, values are shown as em dash.