Potassium Citrate

Brand name: Potassium Citrate Er

Rank #451 of 500 drugs by total cost

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

$17.1M

Total Cost

131,481

Total Claims

$17.1M

Total Cost

4,912

Prescribers

$130

Cost per Claim

19,073

Beneficiaries

261,399

30-Day Fills

$3,490

Avg Cost/Provider

Avg Claims/Provider

Share of Medicare Part D Spending

0.01%

of total Medicare Part D spending

$17.1M of $275.65B

Top 10 prescribers of $17.1M total

#	Provider	Specialty	Location	Claims	Cost
1	Mantu Gupta	Urology	New York, NY	475	$86K
2	Ganesh Shidham	Nephrology	Columbus, OH	294	$52K
3	Raymond Raut	Nephrology	Danbury, CT	210	$51K
4	Steven Jensen	Urology	Saginaw, MI	235	$51K
5	Anna Smith	Nurse Practitioner	New Hyde Park, NY	236	$46K
6	Scott Herfel	Physician Assistant	Setauket, NY	270	$44K
7	Glenn Preminger	Urology	Durham, NC	192	$42K
8	Biren Patel	Urology	Surprise, AZ	237	$39K
9	Ann Chinnakotla	Nurse Practitioner	St Louis Park, MN	257	$38K
10	Ojas Shah	Urology	New York, NY	187	$34K
11	Roger Williams	Urology	Dothan, AL	186	$33K
12	Philip Zhao	Urology	New York, NY	153	$32K
13	Zeph Okeke	Urology	New Hyde Park, NY	158	$31K
14	Igor Ryndin	Urology	Brooklyn, NY	208	$31K
15	Ronald Kaye	Urology	New Hartford, NY	152	$30K

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

#	Drug	Total Cost	Claims
448	Naproxen (Naproxen)	$17.4M	903,928
449	Vedolizumab (Entyvio)	$17.4M	2,034
450	Abatacept/Maltose (Orencia)	$17.2M	3,809
451	Potassium Citrate (Potassium Citrate Er)	$17.1M	131,481
452	Insulin Degludec/Liraglutide (Xultophy 100-3.6)	$17.1M	10,644
453	Dicyclomine Hcl (Dicyclomine Hcl)	$17.0M	738,543
454	Nitroglycerin (Nitroglycerin)	$16.8M	768,384

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