NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Alabama Medicare prescriber rankings

18,322 Alabama prescribers billed $5.3 billion in Medicare Part D drugs in 2024, the 18th largest of 56 states and territories. Opioids were 5.19 of every 100 of those claims (CMS), above the national 3.52.

CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers, 2024; CMS NPPES · method · Verify with CMS →

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).
  • Prescribers18,322
  • Part D drug cost$5.3 billion
  • Average per prescriber$291,946
  • Wrote an opioid (CMS)9,783 (53.4%)
  • Opioid claims per 100 claims (CMS)5.19

Reading the Alabama tables

Alabama's 18,322 prescribers wrote 32,456,175 Part D claims in 2024, about $291,946 in drug cost per prescriber. A high total usually reflects specialty practice, such as cancer, rheumatology or HIV care, or vaccines: 1 of the 50 largest totals are mostly vaccines, which pharmacies often bill under a standing order naming one clinician. These are billing tables, not quality ratings. PlainDoctor does not rank named prescribers by opioid share; the state's opioid figures above come from CMS's own totals.

The 50 highest Part D drug-cost totals

Prescriber (NPPES taxonomy)Drug costClaims
1Christopher LagankeNeurology Physician$20.4 million44,438
2Michael StanfordFamily Medicine Physicianmostly vaccines, often billed by pharmacies under a standing order naming this clinician$20.3 million104,499
3Joelle HamiltonMedical Oncology Physician$17.7 million3,365
4Zachary ReardonUrology Physician$15.8 million3,753
5Ashvini SengarHematology & Oncology Physician$14.8 million3,699
6Aasim SehbaiHematology & Oncology Physician$14.2 million4,197
7Ray McLaughlinRheumatology Physician$12.9 million7,329
8Edmund LacourRheumatology Physician$12.2 million6,914
9David WhiteNeurology Physician$11.3 million5,836
10Barry RayburnCardiovascular Disease Physician$10.8 million8,178
11Xiangsheng ZhengInternal Medicine Physician$10.3 million55,260
12Kenneth BurnhamAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$10.1 million17,635
13Elquis CastilloMedical Oncology Physician$10.1 million4,155
14Brandon JohnsonHematology & Oncology Physician$9.8 million3,173
15Joseph JonesHematology & Oncology Physician$9.8 million4,360
16John WaplesMedical Oncology Physician$9.2 million5,506
17Monica RoblesEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician$9.2 million19,798
18Robert ConryHematology & Oncology Physician$9.1 million1,464
19John AndersonAllergy & Immunology Physician$9.0 million2,687
20Richard JonesRheumatology Physician$9.0 million6,239
21Heather BrodyHematology & Oncology Physician$9.0 million3,377
22Pankit VachhaniHematology & Oncology Physician$8.7 million1,296
23Philip AlmaloufPulmonary Disease Physician$8.6 million2,351
24Alejandro GarciaHematology & Oncology Physician$8.5 million1,978
25Sondra CurryAcute Care Nurse Practitioner$8.5 million2,249
26James EvansHematology & Oncology Physician$8.1 million2,886
27Jose TallajAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$8.0 million3,239
28Kirk RussGastroenterology Physician$8.0 million1,249
29Cara BondlyHematology & Oncology Physician$7.8 million5,169
30William SullivanRheumatology Physician$7.7 million9,921
31Surrinder DangHematology & Oncology Physician$7.7 million2,416
32Syed Abbas AliMedical Oncology Physician$7.5 million670
33Ehab El-BaheshHematology & Oncology Physician$7.5 million1,610
34Kelly GodbyHematology & Oncology Physician$7.5 million2,532
35Susan BostickMedical Oncology Physician$7.4 million3,128
36Richard DiethelmNeurology Physician$7.4 million16,510
37Connie UzelHematology & Oncology Physician$7.4 million1,931
38Katisha VanceHematology & Oncology Physician$7.4 million3,548
39Khurram BashirNeurology Physician$7.3 million2,924
40Zarmeena AliRheumatology Physician$7.3 million5,853
41Matthew TuckerHematology & Oncology Physician$7.2 million2,649
42Luciano CostaHematology & Oncology Physician$7.1 million3,229
43Greg EudyRheumatology Physician$7.1 million13,640
44Naresh BellamHematology & Oncology Physician$7.1 million2,335
45Benjamin JonesHematology & Oncology Physician$7.1 million4,618
46Sonia PrestonNurse Practitioner$7.1 million2,928
47Jeffrey GeorgeHematology & Oncology Physician$7.1 million2,012
48Shailendra LakhanpalHematology & Oncology Physician$7.0 million3,239
49Marshall SchreederMedical Oncology Physician$7.0 million3,041
50Emily RiserSpecialist$6.9 million7,458

Source: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider, 2024 (data.cms.gov), matched to CMS NPPES by NPI; vaccine share from the prescriber's top drugs in the CMS by-provider-and-drug file. Specialty is the taxonomy the clinician reported to NPPES.

Common questions

How many Medicare prescribers are in Alabama?

Alabama has 18,322 Medicare Part D prescribers who filed 32,456,175 claims totaling $5.3 billion in drug costs.

What is the opioid prescribing rate in Alabama?

Opioids were 5.19 of every 100 Medicare Part D claims written by Alabama prescribers in 2024, against 3.52 nationally (CMS). 9,783 of the state's 18,321 Part D prescribers in CMS's geography file (53.4%) wrote at least one opioid.

Checking a prescriber

Open the prescriber's record for the full NPI entry and prescribing detail, then confirm the license on the state board search. The Part D file covers Medicare Part D only; commercial, Medicaid, VA and cash prescriptions are not in it.

Prescriber rankings in other states

  1. Alabama
  2. Alaska
  3. American Samoa
  4. Arizona
  5. Arkansas
  6. California
  7. Colorado
  8. Connecticut
  9. Delaware
  10. District of Columbia
  11. Florida
  12. Georgia
  13. Guam
  14. Hawaii
  15. Idaho
  16. Illinois
  17. Indiana
  18. Iowa
  19. Kansas
  20. Kentucky
  21. Louisiana
  22. Maine
  23. Maryland
  24. Massachusetts
  25. Michigan
  26. Minnesota
  27. Mississippi
  28. Missouri
  29. Montana
  30. Nebraska
  31. Nevada
  32. New Hampshire
  33. New Jersey
  34. New Mexico
  35. New York
  36. North Carolina
  37. North Dakota
  38. Northern Mariana Islands
  39. Ohio
  40. Oklahoma
  41. Oregon
  42. Pennsylvania
  43. Puerto Rico
  44. Rhode Island
  45. South Carolina
  46. South Dakota
  47. Tennessee
  48. Texas
  49. Utah
  50. Vermont
  51. Virgin Islands
  52. Virginia
  53. Washington
  54. West Virginia
  55. Wisconsin
  56. Wyoming

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Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Medicare Part D data year 2024 (CMS).