Colchicine

Rank #358 of 500 drugs by total cost

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

$27.5M

Total Cost

314,046

Total Claims

$27.5M

Total Cost

14,223

Prescribers

$88

Cost per Claim

52,371

Beneficiaries

458,593

30-Day Fills

$1,935

Avg Cost/Provider

Avg Claims/Provider

Share of Medicare Part D Spending

0.01%

of total Medicare Part D spending

$27.5M of $275.65B

Top 10 prescribers of $27.5M total

#	Provider	Specialty	Location	Claims	Cost
1	Jasen Chi	Rheumatology	Little Rock, AR	648	$78K
2	Arutyun Topsakalyan	General Practice	Glendale, CA	486	$62K
3	Zaven Arslanian	General Practice	Glendale, CA	149	$60K
4	Zaven Arslanian	General Practice	Glendale, CA	451	$53K
5	Xiangsheng Zheng	Internal Medicine	Birmingham, AL	225	$47K
6	Zarine Ter-Poghosyan	Family Practice	Burbank, CA	106	$47K
7	Kelvin Mai	Internal Medicine	Santa Ana, CA	117	$41K
8	Zarine Ter-Poghosyan	Family Practice	Burbank, CA	272	$39K
9	Manuel Abella	Cardiology	Miami, FL	268	$38K
10	Arutyun Topsakalyan	General Practice	Glendale, CA	72	$36K
11	Thuan Vo	Internal Medicine	Westminster, CA	48	$36K
12	Morgan Bittengle	Nurse Practitioner	Little Rock, AR	294	$36K
13	Rajesh Agarwal	Internal Medicine	Mayfield Heights, OH	439	$35K
14	Kelvin Mai	Internal Medicine	Santa Ana, CA	211	$34K
15	Cres Miranda	Cardiology	Las Vegas, NV	248	$31K

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

#	Drug	Total Cost	Claims
355	Iloperidone (Fanapt)	$28.2M	13,925
356	Aflibercept (Eylea)	$28.0M	10,899
357	Fostemsavir Tromethamine (Rukobia)	$27.8M	3,094
358	Colchicine (Colchicine)	$27.5M	314,046
359	Valsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide (Valsartan-Hydrochlorothiazide)	$27.5M	510,583
360	Ropinirole Hcl (Ropinirole Hcl)	$27.5M	1,204,903
361	Trifluridine/Tipiracil Hcl (Lonsurf)	$27.3M	2,430

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