Metronidazole

Rank #440 of 500 drugs by total cost

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

$18.0M

Total Cost

405,967

Total Claims

$18.0M

Total Cost

17,762

Prescribers

$44

Cost per Claim

241,007

Beneficiaries

430,858

30-Day Fills

$1,015

Avg Cost/Provider

Avg Claims/Provider

Share of Medicare Part D Spending

0.01%

of total Medicare Part D spending

$18.0M of $275.65B

Top 10 prescribers of $18.0M total

#	Provider	Specialty	Location	Claims	Cost
1	Lyudmila Magakyan-Martinez	Nurse Practitioner	New York, NY	622	$59K
2	Navid Ezra	Dermatology	Thousand Oaks, CA	365	$41K
3	Pamela Leve	Dermatology	Rochester, NY	469	$32K
4	Joshua Shapiro	Physician Assistant	New York, NY	394	$31K
5	Liliya Besedina	Dermatology	Bayonne, NJ	254	$27K
6	Karina Torres	Nurse Practitioner	Miami, FL	252	$25K
7	Bijan Setareh-Shenas	Dermatology	Plainview, NY	305	$24K
8	Roman Bronfenbrener	Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery	Southampton, PA	328	$23K
9	Edith Winter	Dermatology	Raleigh, NC	399	$22K
10	Huachen Wei	Dermatology	Elmhurst, NY	228	$22K
11	Jennifer Gray	Dermatology	Old Saybrook, CT	234	$21K
12	Athena Phan	Dermatology	Montgomery, AL	231	$20K
13	Anthony Perri	Dermatology	Conroe, TX	252	$20K
14	Anthony Flood	Family Practice	Washington, DC	186	$19K
15	Pinkas Lebovits	Dermatology	New York, NY	242	$18K

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

#	Drug	Total Cost	Claims
437	Sacrosidase (Sucraid)	$18.5M	1,517
438	Enasidenib Mesylate (Idhifa)	$18.1M	554
439	Posaconazole (Posaconazole)	$18.0M	7,163
440	Metronidazole (Metronidazole)	$18.0M	405,967
441	Rufinamide (Rufinamide)	$18.0M	8,793
442	Istradefylline (Nourianz)	$17.8M	7,061
443	Encorafenib (Braftovi)	$17.6M	1,209

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