Tadalafil

Rank #282 of 500 drugs by total cost

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

$42.3M

Total Cost

91,082

Total Claims

$42.3M

Total Cost

3,183

Prescribers

$464

Cost per Claim

9,044

Beneficiaries

136,099

30-Day Fills

$13K

Avg Cost/Provider

Avg Claims/Provider

Share of Medicare Part D Spending

0.02%

of total Medicare Part D spending

$42.3M of $275.65B

Top 10 prescribers of $42.3M total

#	Provider	Specialty	Location	Claims	Cost
1	R White	Pulmonary Disease	Rochester, NY	971	$1.9M
2	Emily Fedewa	Nurse Practitioner	San Francisco, CA	368	$666K
3	Murali Chakinala	Pulmonary Disease	Saint Louis, MO	479	$592K
4	Jean Elwing	Pulmonary Disease	Cincinnati, OH	346	$546K
5	Denise Sese	Pulmonary Disease	Charleston, SC	375	$489K
6	Eric Roberts	Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology	Milwaukee, WI	643	$474K
7	Christina Eagan	Nurse Practitioner	Gainesville, FL	100	$454K
8	Harrison Farber	Pulmonary Disease	Boston, MA	236	$404K
9	Vallerie Mclaughlin	Cardiology	Ann Arbor, MI	368	$392K
10	Lillian Hansen	Nurse Practitioner	Tucson, AZ	298	$367K
11	Rahul Argula	Pulmonary Disease	Charleston, SC	277	$364K
12	Hubert Ford	Pulmonary Disease	Chapel Hill, NC	84	$345K
13	Ronald Oudiz	Cardiology	Torrance, CA	156	$344K
14	Michael Mathier	Cardiology	Pittsburgh, PA	262	$321K
15	Rajan Saggar	Pulmonary Disease	Los Angeles, CA	233	$317K

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

#	Drug	Total Cost	Claims
279	Leuprolide Acetate (Lupron Depot)	$42.7M	9,949
280	Efgartigimod Alfa-Fcab (Vyvgart)	$42.6M	1,005
281	Hydrochlorothiazide (Hydrochlorothiazide)	$42.4M	7,879,021
282	Tadalafil (Tadalafil)	$42.3M	91,082
283	Topiramate (Topiramate)	$41.9M	1,141,093
284	Latanoprostene Bunod (Vyzulta)	$41.6M	92,705
285	Travoprost (Travoprost)	$41.5M	178,599

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