Desvenlafaxine Succinate

Brand name: Desvenlafaxine Succinate Er

Rank #412 of 500 drugs by total cost

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

$21.3M

Total Cost

257,580

Total Claims

$21.3M

Total Cost

9,770

Prescribers

$83

Cost per Claim

14,099

Beneficiaries

389,532

30-Day Fills

$2,184

Avg Cost/Provider

Avg Claims/Provider

Share of Medicare Part D Spending

0.01%

of total Medicare Part D spending

$21.3M of $275.65B

Top 10 prescribers of $21.3M total

#	Provider	Specialty	Location	Claims	Cost
1	Bachar Malek	Internal Medicine	Evansville, IN	446	$250K
2	Simon Mcclure	Psychiatry	Bridgeport, WV	440	$36K
3	Maureen Wuest	Nurse Practitioner	Maywood, IL	262	$32K
4	Muhammed Niazi	Neurology	Rockledge, FL	340	$31K
5	Jorge Quintana	Psychiatry	Rahway, NJ	270	$30K
6	Jessica Kincaid	Nurse Practitioner	Findlay, OH	187	$28K
7	Edward Pearce	Physician Assistant	Naples, FL	218	$28K
8	Carlo Bayrakdarian	Psychiatry	White Plains, NY	466	$28K
9	Robert Morton	Psychiatry	Ada, OK	451	$28K
10	Laura Eisenberg	Nurse Practitioner	Austin, TX	293	$27K
11	Lorraine Innes	Psychiatry	Bedford Hills, NY	17	$26K
12	Roy Meland	Psychiatry	Lansing, MI	130	$26K
13	Angel Loyola	Psychiatry	Humacao, PR	481	$26K
14	Michael Saribalas	Sleep Medicine	Columbus, OH	165	$25K
15	Jose Gomez Alba	Psychiatry	Carolina, PR	392	$25K

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

#	Drug	Total Cost	Claims
409	Cephalexin (Cephalexin)	$21.4M	2,407,718
410	Teprotumumab-Trbw (Tepezza)	$21.4M	389
411	Nystatin (Nystatin)	$21.4M	908,177
412	Desvenlafaxine Succinate (Desvenlafaxine Succinate Er)	$21.3M	257,580
413	Sotorasib (Lumakras)	$21.3M	1,188
414	Ibuprofen (Ibuprofen)	$21.2M	2,537,634
415	Lubiprostone (Lubiprostone)	$21.1M	86,987

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