Sodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate

Brand name: Lokelma

Rank #224 of 500 drugs by total cost

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

$60.2M

Total Cost

77,902

Total Claims

$60.2M

Total Cost

2,986

Prescribers

$773

Cost per Claim

12,461

Beneficiaries

100,416

30-Day Fills

$20K

Avg Cost/Provider

Avg Claims/Provider

Share of Medicare Part D Spending

0.02%

of total Medicare Part D spending

$60.2M of $275.65B

Top 10 prescribers of $60.2M total

#	Provider	Specialty	Location	Claims	Cost
1	Jill Meyer	Nephrology	Chula Vista, CA	206	$204K
2	Thong Do	Internal Medicine	Hanford, CA	183	$201K
3	Anthony Blalock	Nephrology	Lafayette, LA	239	$200K
4	Raffi Minasian	Nephrology	Glendale, CA	199	$189K
5	Mourad Alsabbagh	Nephrology	Mcallen, TX	105	$164K
6	Maybel Tan	Nephrology	Montebello, CA	196	$158K
7	Reynaldo Tan	Nephrology	Brooklyn, NY	169	$158K
8	Ankur Patel	Nephrology	Phoenix, AZ	105	$155K
9	Deno Kang	Internal Medicine	Artesia, CA	160	$149K
10	John Kang	Nephrology	Bronx, NY	139	$147K
11	Franklin Ponce Herrera	Nephrology	Mcallen, TX	112	$135K
12	Yanilda Nunez Germosen	Nephrology	Mcallen, TX	155	$134K
13	Karla Menjivar	Nurse Practitioner	Los Angeles, CA	144	$131K
14	Rafael Khaim	Nurse Practitioner	New York, NY	145	$131K
15	Nikita Neverov	Nephrology	Altoona, PA	108	$129K

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

#	Drug	Total Cost	Claims
221	Ferric Citrate (Auryxia)	$60.7M	32,798
222	Dextromethorphan Hbr/Quinidine (Nuedexta)	$60.7M	60,863
223	Interferon Beta-1a/Albumin (Rebif)	$60.7M	5,917
224	Sodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate (Lokelma)	$60.2M	77,902
225	Golimumab (Simponi Aria)	$59.9M	8,718
226	Olanzapine (Olanzapine)	$59.4M	1,444,781
227	Metoprolol Tartrate (Metoprolol Tartrate)	$59.4M	6,859,124

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