NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

American Samoa Medicare prescriber rankings

2 American Samoa prescribers billed $1,608 in Medicare Part D drugs in 2024, the 56th largest of 56 states and territories.

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).
  • Prescribers2
  • Part D drug cost$1,608
  • Average per prescriber$804
  • Wrote an opioid (CMS)n/a
  • Opioid claims per 100 claims (CMS)n/a

Reading the American Samoa tables

American Samoa's 2 prescribers wrote 84 Part D claims in 2024, about $804 in drug cost per prescriber. A high total usually reflects specialty practice, such as cancer, rheumatology or HIV care. 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 2 highest Part D drug-cost totals

Prescriber (NPPES taxonomy)Drug costClaims
1Debbie SheltonNurse Practitioner$97644
2Iotamo SaleapagaInternal Medicine Physician$63240

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 American Samoa?

American Samoa has 2 Medicare Part D prescribers who filed 84 claims totaling $1,608 in drug costs.

What is the opioid prescribing rate in American Samoa?

CMS publishes no opioid totals for American Samoa.

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).