slides: #50 to #1: Doctors in RI with the Most Medicare Prescription Claims
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
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#50 to #1: Doctors in RI with the Most Medicare Prescription Claims
Over 350 internal medicine doctors in Rhode Island wrote prescriptions for at least one drug in Medicare Part D in 2013 -- with the doctor with the most Medicare Part D prescriptions filled (including refills) topping 83,000.
During that time frame, the top three prescribing internal medicine doctors in Rhode Island had over 150,000 prescriptions filled with a retail price of over $7.5 million.
SEE SLIDES BELOW: Doctors in Rhode Island Who Filled the Most Medicare Prescription Claims
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This data comes from an analysis conducted by ProPublica who obtained prescribing data from Medicare’s prescription drug benefit, known as Part D, was compiled and released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The data for 2013 includes more than 1.4 billion prescriptions written by nearly 1.3 million doctors, nurses and other providers. This database lists about 410,000 of those providers who wrote 50 or more prescriptions for at least one drug that year. Almost three-fourths went to patients 65 and older; the rest were for disabled patients.
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The following information was found on ProPublica, which performs investigative journalism for the sake of the public interest.
The doctors listed here self-identified internal medicine as their primary specialty, and are sorted from the lowest amount of Medicare prescription claims filled in 2013 (the latest data year available) to the highest amount of Medicare prescription claims filled during that time frame.
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#50
Prescriber: Robert Cicchelli MD
City: Middletown
Claims Filled: 12,483
Total Cost: $548K
# of Medicare D Patients: 480
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 23%
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#49
Prescriber: Parul Shah MD
City: East Providence
Claims Filled: 12,498
Total Cost: $547K
# of Medicare D Patients: 499
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 19%
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#48
Prescriber: Amber Gul M.D.
City: Pawtucket
Claims Filled: 12,694
Total Cost: $524K
# of Medicare D Patients: 463
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 22%
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#47
Prescriber: Mechery Davis MD
City: Warwick
Claims Filled: 13,052
Total Cost: $534K
# of Medicare D Patients: 443
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 15%
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#46
Prescriber: Cassandra Constantino MD
City: Bristol
Claims Filled: 13,054
Total Cost: $493K
# of Medicare D Patients: 530
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 14%
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#45
Prescriber: Joan Harrison M.D.
City: Tiverton
Claims Filled: 13,219
Total Cost: $541K
# of Medicare D Patients: 465
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 16%
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#44
Prescriber: Alberto Erfe MD
City: Woonsocket
Claims Filled: 13,269
Total Cost: $748K
# of Medicare D Patients: 286
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 28%
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#43
Prescriber: Richard Ryter MD
City: Smithfield
Claims Filled: 13,350
Total Cost: $490K
# of Medicare D Patients: 611
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 15%
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#42
Prescriber: Stephen Beaupre MD
City: Cranston
Claims Filled: 13,397
Total Cost: $559K
# of Medicare D Patients: 421
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 15%
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#41
Prescriber: Peter Eller M.D.
City: Pawtucket
Claims Filled: 13,465
Total Cost: $596K
# of Medicare D Patients: 709
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 15%
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#40
Prescriber: Jason Boudjouk M.D.
City: Warwick
Claims Filled: 13,488
Total Cost: $616K
# of Medicare D Patients: 419
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 20%
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#39
Prescriber: Stephanie Krusz MD
City: Cranston
Claims Filled: 13,525
Total Cost: $508K
# of Medicare D Patients: 514
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 19%
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#38
Prescriber: Gilbert Teixeira DO
City: East Providence
Claims Filled: 13,654
Total Cost: $664K
# of Medicare D Patients: 530
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 17%
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#37
Prescriber: Richard Leach DO
City: East Greenwich
Claims Filled: 13,655
Total Cost: $494K
# of Medicare D Patients: 541
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 17%
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#36
Prescriber: James Cardi M.D.
City: Cranston
Claims Filled: 14,253
Total Cost: $554K
# of Medicare D Patients: 621
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 16%
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#35
Prescriber: Leonard Mannarelli D.O.
City: Cranston
Claims Filled: 14,515
Total Cost: $682K
# of Medicare D Patients: 423
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 19%
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#34
Prescriber: John Bandola M.D.
City: Wakefield
Claims Filled: 14,736
Total Cost: $583K
# of Medicare D Patients: 537
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 18%
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#33
Prescriber: Jeffry Winters MD
City: Cranston
Claims Filled: 15,013
Total Cost: $535K
# of Medicare D Patients: 684
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 15%
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#32
Prescriber: Amir Alizadeh, MD Inc. MD
City: North Providence
Claims Filled: 15,019
Total Cost: $506K
# of Medicare D Patients: 683
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 15%
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#31
Prescriber: Herman Ayvazyan MD
City: East Providence
Claims Filled: 15,075
Total Cost: $670K
# of Medicare D Patients: 580
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 19%
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#30
Prescriber: Fred Ferri MD
City: Johnston
Claims Filled: 15,147
Total Cost: $446K
# of Medicare D Patients: 596
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 13%
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#29
Prescriber: Angelo Dicenso M.D.
City: Johnston
Claims Filled: 15,324
Total Cost: $482K
# of Medicare D Patients: 659
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 15%
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#28
Prescriber: Kimberly Humulock DO
City: Warwick
Claims Filled: 15,337
Total Cost: $614K
# of Medicare D Patients: 492
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 17%
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#27
Prescriber: Greigstone Yearwood M.D.
City: Woonsocket
Claims Filled: 15,401
Total Cost: $754K
# of Medicare D Patients: 540
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 18%
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#26
Prescriber: Donald McNiece MD
City: Wakefield
Claims Filled: 15,571
Total Cost: $657K
# of Medicare D Patients: 706
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 19%
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#25
Prescriber: Jeffrey Drogin MD
City: East Providence
Claims Filled: 15,686
Total Cost: $936K
# of Medicare D Patients: 711
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 22%
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#24
Prescriber: David DiCecco M.D.
City: North Providence
Claims Filled: 15,690
Total Cost: $627K
# of Medicare D Patients: 418
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 23%
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#23
Prescriber: Dennis Botelho MD
City: Cranston
Claims Filled: 15,845
Total Cost: $633K
# of Medicare D Patients: 584
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 17%
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#22
Prescriber: Bassam Khabbaz MD
City: Cumberland
Claims Filled: 15,884
Total Cost: $861K
# of Medicare D Patients: 310
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 26%
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#21
Prescriber: Sumaira Ali M.D.
City: Greenville
Claims Filled: 16,266
Total Cost: $761K
# of Medicare D Patients: 446
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 25%
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#20
Prescriber: Gregory Allen D.O.
City: Cranston
Claims Filled: 16,475
Total Cost: $862K
# of Medicare D Patients: 435
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 26%
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#19
Prescriber: Hugo Yamada MD
City: Lincoln
Claims Filled: 16,605
Total Cost: $967K
# of Medicare D Patients: 594
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 21%
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Prescriber: Nicholas Turilli D.O.
City: Warwick
Claims Filled: 16,871
Total Cost: $867K
# of Medicare D Patients: 659
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 23%
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#17
Prescriber: Pamela Harrop MD
City: Bristol
Claims Filled: 17,393
Total Cost: $667K
# of Medicare D Patients: 485
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 18%
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#16
Prescriber: Kathleen Gordon DO
City: Johnston
Claims Filled: 17,864
Total Cost: $734K
# of Medicare D Patients: 626
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 21%
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#15
Prescriber: Job Sandoval MD
City: Westerly
Claims Filled: 18,348
Total Cost: $567K
# of Medicare D Patients: 744
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 14%
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#14
Prescriber: Howard Perrone M.D.
City: Bristol
Claims Filled: 18,585
Total Cost: $746K
# of Medicare D Patients: 531
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 21%
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#13
Prescriber: Stanley Balon M.D.
City: Cumberland
Claims Filled: 19,272
Total Cost: $663K
# of Medicare D Patients: 664
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 15%
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#12
Prescriber: Olga Tverskaya M.D.
City: Cranston
Claims Filled: 19,766
Total Cost: $928K
# of Medicare D Patients: 530
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 23%
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#11
Prescriber: Christopher Superczynski M.D.
City: Woonsocket
Claims Filled: 20,483
Total Cost: $901K
# of Medicare D Patients: 1,008
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 16%
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#10
Prescriber: Edward Gauthier M.D.
City: North Providence
Claims Filled: 20,741
Total Cost: $961K
# of Medicare D Patients: 384
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 27%
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Prescriber: William Beliveau MD
City: Johnston
Claims Filled: 20,888
Total Cost: $952K
# of Medicare D Patients: 931
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 25%
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#8
Prescriber: Frank Maggiacomo D.O.
City: Cranston
Claims Filled: 22,043
Total Cost: $1.01M
# of Medicare D Patients: 869
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 19%
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#7
Prescriber: Ahmad Al-Raqqad M.D.
City: Pawtucket
Claims Filled: 23,773
Total Cost: $1.03M
# of Medicare D Patients: 581
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 21%
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#6
Prescriber: Anthony Lombardi MD
City: Cranston
Claims Filled: 24,203
Total Cost: $1.11M
# of Medicare D Patients: 713
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 24%
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#5
Prescriber: Ralph Santoro M.D.
City: Cranston
Claims Filled: 28,596
Total Cost: $1.32M
# of Medicare D Patients: 641
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 24%
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#4
Prescriber: Avanish Mehta M.D.
City: Cumberland
Claims Filled: 30,098
Total Cost: $1.48M
# of Medicare D Patients: 480
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 26%
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#3
Prescriber: Richard Ruggieri M.D.
City: Providence
Claims Filled: 37,529
Total Cost: $1.82M
# of Medicare D Patients: 1,167
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 23%
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#2
Prescriber: Shahzad Khurshid M.D.
City: Cranston
Claims Filled: 38,060
Total Cost: $1.74M
# of Medicare D Patients: 731
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 26%
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Prescriber: Hao Huang M.D.
City: Cranston
Claims Filled: 83,917
Total Cost: $4.03M
# of Medicare D Patients: 1,568
Claims for Brand Name Drugs: 26%
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