Sumatriptan Succinate

Rank #428 of 500 drugs by total cost

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

$19.4M

Total Cost

555,011

Total Claims

$19.4M

Total Cost

24,335

Prescribers

$35

Cost per Claim

29,581

Beneficiaries

643,420

30-Day Fills

$798

Avg Cost/Provider

Avg Claims/Provider

Share of Medicare Part D Spending

0.01%

of total Medicare Part D spending

$19.4M of $275.65B

Top 10 prescribers of $19.4M total

#	Provider	Specialty	Location	Claims	Cost
1	Paul Catanzaro	Interventional Pain Management	Saint Louis, MO	252	$248K
2	Gurpreet Padda	Interventional Pain Management	Saint Louis, MO	168	$172K
3	Joseph Peck	Pain Management	Manhattan Beach, CA	11	$116K
4	Aladdin Bolad	Internal Medicine	Alexandria, VA	21	$110K
5	Daniel Schwartz	Neurology	Carmel, NY	89	$85K
6	Noah Rosen	Interventional Pain Management	Great Neck, NY	172	$75K
7	Paul Mathew	Neurology	Cambridge, MA	139	$66K
8	William Burstein	Internal Medicine	Philadelphia, PA	16	$61K
9	Marina Neystat	Neurology	Forest Hills, NY	23	$57K
10	Phillip Mcghee	Family Practice	Oklahoma City, OK	39	$56K
11	Paul Mathew	Neurology	Cambridge, MA	23	$55K
12	Winthrop Risk	Neurology	Cedar Rapids, IA	220	$46K
13	Mary Chiasson	Neurology	Bloomington, MN	282	$46K
14	Casilda Balmaceda	Neurology	New York, NY	786	$45K
15	Javed Iqbal	Neurology	Las Cruces, NM	11	$44K

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

#	Drug	Total Cost	Claims
425	Clobazam (Clobazam)	$19.8M	58,877
426	Fluorouracil (Fluorouracil)	$19.5M	220,445
427	Ertapenem Sodium (Ertapenem)	$19.4M	36,784
428	Sumatriptan Succinate (Sumatriptan Succinate)	$19.4M	555,011
429	Darbepoetin Alfa In Polysorbat (Aranesp)	$19.3M	6,889
430	Ondansetron Hcl (Ondansetron Hcl)	$19.3M	1,255,548
431	Tasimelteon (Hetlioz)	$19.3M	763

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