Clonidine

Rank #456 of 500 drugs by total cost

Data: CMS Medicare Part D, 2023 (most current available) · Updated March 2026

$16.7M

Total Cost

112,710

Total Claims

$16.7M

Total Cost

5,268

Prescribers

$148

Cost per Claim

5,256

Beneficiaries

157,521

30-Day Fills

$3,166

Avg Cost/Provider

Avg Claims/Provider

Share of Medicare Part D Spending

0.01%

of total Medicare Part D spending

$16.7M of $275.65B

Top 10 prescribers of $16.7M total

#	Provider	Specialty	Location	Claims	Cost
1	Shashi Sharma	Cardiology	Visalia, CA	231	$57K
2	Paramjit Takhar	Family Practice	Sacramento, CA	166	$45K
3	Grigoriy Goldenberg	Internal Medicine	Brooklyn, NY	482	$43K
4	James Parks	Cardiology	Birmingham, AL	258	$41K
5	Steven Clark	Internal Medicine	Cleveland, MS	301	$39K
6	Ricardo Cigarroa	Interventional Cardiology	Laredo, TX	255	$38K
7	Hajir Dilmanian	Nuclear Medicine	Brooklyn, NY	95	$37K
8	Fernando Segovia	Interventional Cardiology	Edgewater, NJ	199	$37K
9	Kevin Scott	Family Practice	Wyncote, PA	136	$30K
10	Uri Ben-Zur	Cardiology	Tarzana, CA	210	$29K
11	Vivienne Smith	Cardiology	Albany, NY	286	$27K
12	Ashraf Nashed	Cardiology	Thousand Oaks, CA	165	$27K
13	Don Lee	Interventional Cardiology	Glendale, CA	246	$27K
14	Raffi Minasian	Nephrology	Glendale, CA	140	$26K
15	Vivek Khetpal	Cardiology	Durant, OK	106	$25K

Top prescribers ranked by total cost for this drug in 2023.

#	Drug	Total Cost	Claims
453	Dicyclomine Hcl (Dicyclomine Hcl)	$17.0M	738,543
454	Nitroglycerin (Nitroglycerin)	$16.8M	768,384
455	Lanreotide Acetate (Somatuline Depot)	$16.7M	1,753
456	Clonidine (Clonidine)	$16.7M	112,710
457	Glucagon (Gvoke Hypopen 2-Pack)	$16.6M	31,523
458	Bosentan (Bosentan)	$16.5M	2,765
459	Telmisartan (Telmisartan)	$16.4M	334,601

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Data from CMS Medicare Part D Prescriber-Drug Public Use File, 2023. Methodology