Lidocaine

Rank #196 of 500 drugs by total cost

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

$74.4M

Total Cost

416,864

Total Claims

$74.4M

Total Cost

13,960

Prescribers

$178

Cost per Claim

77,147

Beneficiaries

475,201

30-Day Fills

$5,329

Avg Cost/Provider

Avg Claims/Provider

Share of Medicare Part D Spending

0.03%

of total Medicare Part D spending

$74.4M of $275.65B

Top 10 prescribers of $74.4M total

#	Provider	Specialty	Location	Claims	Cost
1	John Kim	Internal Medicine	Annandale, VA	1,355	$556K
2	Heesoo Jeong	Internal Medicine	Los Angeles, CA	969	$541K
3	Sang Baik	Internal Medicine	Los Angeles, CA	1,481	$479K
4	Shawn Kim	Internal Medicine	Duluth, GA	464	$471K
5	Jae Yoo	Internal Medicine	Los Angeles, CA	1,390	$422K
6	Jiho Choi	Family Practice	Annandale, VA	1,092	$414K
7	Joo Jang	Nurse Practitioner	Leonia, NJ	483	$369K
8	Vlad Nusinovich	Internal Medicine	West Hollywood, CA	1,304	$328K
9	Young-Jik Lee	Internal Medicine	Los Angeles, CA	1,180	$291K
10	Igor Cohen	Neurology	Astoria, NY	316	$283K
11	Kitty Anderson	Nurse Practitioner	Raeford, NC	256	$275K
12	Joo Jang	Nurse Practitioner	Leonia, NJ	1,274	$268K
13	Shawn Kim	Internal Medicine	Duluth, GA	648	$265K
14	Jaesoo Pak	Internal Medicine	Cerritos, CA	575	$253K
15	Soo Kang	Internal Medicine	Buena Park, CA	955	$249K

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

#	Drug	Total Cost	Claims
193	Carvedilol (Carvedilol)	$75.6M	6,390,691
194	Cannabidiol (Cbd) (Epidiolex)	$75.5M	15,726
195	Eculizumab (Soliris)	$74.6M	1,794
196	Lidocaine (Lidocaine)	$74.4M	416,864
197	Simvastatin (Simvastatin)	$74.4M	6,872,746
198	Sertraline Hcl (Sertraline Hcl)	$74.3M	6,472,210
199	Pirfenidone (Pirfenidone)	$74.1M	17,775

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