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#69 Drug: Adempas (Riociguat)
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: $694,246,753.40 total spending in 2024.
| State | Prescriber | NPI | Provider Type | Total Claims | Total Benes | Total Costs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Kenneth Burnham | 1164462321 | Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology | 68 | — | $941,022.17 |
| Alaska | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Arizona | Therese Sargent | 1851393433 | Nurse Practitioner | 231 | 31 | $3,193,698.42 |
| Arkansas | Muhammad Waqas | 1609060334 | Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology | 198 | 25 | $2,708,465.92 |
| California | Mark Avdalovic | 1649254467 | Pulmonary Disease | 163 | 22 | $2,246,526.90 |
| Colorado | Lin-Wang Dong | 1114064490 | Cardiology | 159 | 19 | $2,165,453.56 |
| Connecticut | Raj Parikh | 1790122794 | Pulmonary Disease | 70 | — | $971,654.90 |
| Delaware | Irene Swift | 1275796120 | Pulmonary Disease | 42 | — | $528,988.96 |
| District of Columbia | Mrinalini Krishnan | 1255686978 | Cardiology | 74 | 11 | $1,066,789.22 |
| Florida | Ricardo Restrepo-Jaramillo | 1295994952 | Pulmonary Disease | 238 | 30 | $3,255,480.86 |
| Georgia | Hunter Champion | 1285683755 | Cardiology | 975 | 99 | $13,156,161.39 |
| Hawaii | Christopher Fiack | 1891716072 | Pulmonary Disease | 21 | — | $281,105.62 |
| Idaho | William Thompson | 1770594186 | Sleep Medicine | 21 | — | $290,486.41 |
| Illinois | Michael Cuttica | 1932224441 | Critical Care (Intensivists) | 132 | 17 | $1,862,571.22 |
| Indiana | Ashwin Ravichandran | 1407012776 | Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology | 143 | 18 | $1,960,086.65 |
| Iowa | Alicia Gerke | 1053520759 | Pulmonary Disease | 61 | — | $824,104.72 |
| Kansas | Lewis Satterwhite | 1932385358 | Pulmonary Disease | 70 | — | $990,444.22 |
| Kentucky | John Mcconnell | 1902831761 | Pulmonary Disease | 579 | 59 | $8,021,522.63 |
| Louisiana | Kimberly Thompson | 1144892407 | Nurse Practitioner | 192 | 28 | $2,643,364.14 |
| Maine | Hilamber Subba | 1659504751 | Internal Medicine | 84 | 14 | $1,099,316.92 |
| Maryland | Loida Johnson | 1427350628 | Nurse Practitioner | 178 | 19 | $2,430,165.06 |
| Massachusetts | Mohsen Noreldin | 1699765776 | Internal Medicine | 128 | 14 | $1,767,855.00 |
| Michigan | Vallerie Mclaughlin | 1205912268 | Cardiology | 236 | 22 | $3,123,061.78 |
| Minnesota | Hilary Dubrock | 1649442716 | Pulmonary Disease | 142 | 18 | $2,010,259.56 |
| Mississippi | Robert Long | 1639383532 | Cardiology | 38 | — | $534,520.91 |
| Missouri | Murali Chakinala | 1407872724 | Pulmonary Disease | 353 | 36 | $4,935,126.17 |
| Montana | John Mazur | 1659364651 | Pulmonary Disease | 14 | — | $151,473.93 |
| Nebraska | Ronald Zolty | 1023108701 | Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology | 424 | 45 | $5,863,965.90 |
| Nevada | Joseph Stevenson | 1467444901 | Cardiology | 251 | 24 | $3,365,322.87 |
| New Hampshire | Susan D'anna | 1467415661 | Nurse Practitioner | 25 | — | $338,829.16 |
| New Jersey | George Ciechanowski | 1407932650 | Internal Medicine | 55 | — | $696,835.62 |
| New Mexico | Charles Gallegos | 1912050089 | Nurse Practitioner | 149 | 14 | $2,023,042.06 |
| New York | Frank Cefali | 1760811640 | Nurse Practitioner | 447 | 59 | $5,952,347.61 |
| North Carolina | Benjamin Trichon | 1871599860 | Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology | 98 | 11 | $1,372,237.17 |
| North Dakota | Heeraimangalore Manjunath | 1366472441 | Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology | 13 | — | $190,189.38 |
| Ohio | Gustavo Heresi Davila | 1407052632 | Pulmonary Disease | 309 | 32 | $4,054,500.18 |
| Oklahoma | John Kingrey | 1689863953 | Pulmonary Disease | 315 | 33 | $4,335,748.57 |
| Oregon | Jeffrey Robinson | 1053587816 | Pulmonary Disease | 61 | — | $819,909.72 |
| Pennsylvania | Paul Forfia | 1245316058 | Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology | 261 | 27 | $3,385,171.46 |
| Rhode Island | Mary Whittenhall | 1205231081 | Nurse Practitioner | 81 | — | $953,728.67 |
| South Carolina | Rahul Argula | 1386841583 | Pulmonary Disease | 311 | 35 | $4,306,444.60 |
| South Dakota | Kevin Vaska | 1891782645 | Cardiology | 69 | — | $940,992.77 |
| Tennessee | John Swisher | 1083609564 | Pulmonary Disease | 154 | 18 | $2,096,946.99 |
| Texas | Sandeep Sahay | 1669602710 | Pulmonary Disease | 360 | 38 | $5,014,212.72 |
| Utah | Imad Farrukh | 1851498273 | Pulmonary Disease | 104 | 12 | $1,369,253.05 |
| Vermont | Maryellen Antkowiak | 1588836043 | Internal Medicine | 37 | — | $498,634.86 |
| Virginia | Moises Cossio | 1265405260 | Pulmonary Disease | 94 | — | $1,275,257.28 |
| Washington | Peter Leary | 1669675534 | Pulmonary Disease | 118 | 12 | $1,577,897.93 |
| West Virginia | Marco Caccamo | 1164696530 | Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology | 40 | — | $481,453.47 |
| Wisconsin | Eric Roberts | 1407010879 | Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology | 385 | 38 | $5,172,621.64 |
| Wyoming | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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.