Connecticut Medicare prescriber rankings

20,119 Connecticut prescribers billed $4.1 billion in Medicare Part D drugs in 2024, the 26th largest of 56 states and territories. Opioids were 2.77 of every 100 of those claims (CMS), below 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).

Prescribers20,119
Part D drug cost$4.1 billion
Average per prescriber$204,356
Wrote an opioid (CMS)10,695 (53.2%)
Opioid claims per 100 claims (CMS)2.77

Reading the Connecticut tables

Connecticut's 20,119 prescribers wrote 19,967,850 Part D claims in 2024, about $204,356 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 cost	Claims
1Sabeena AroraCardiovascular Disease Physician	$17.7 million	1,770
2Edward MillerNuclear Cardiology Physician	$16.6 million	1,017
3Janelle DuahInternal Medicine Physicianmostly vaccines, often billed by pharmacies under a standing order naming this clinician	$13.8 million	71,172
4Cesia Maria Gallegos KattanCardiovascular Disease Physician	$11.9 million	2,830
5Tapas BandyopadhyayPulmonary Disease Physician	$10.8 million	5,017
6Alfredo AxtmayerAdult Health Nurse Practitioner	$10.3 million	2,328
7Erica StevensFamily Nurse Practitioner	$10.0 million	1,605
8Pramod MistryGastroenterology Physician	$9.7 million	372
9Tara AndersonPhysician Assistant	$9.3 million	1,257
10Raj ParikhPulmonary Disease Physician	$9.3 million	1,701
11Joseph McLaughlinMedical Oncology Physician	$8.3 million	2,243
12Mary Ann SavariaAdult Health Nurse Practitioner	$8.1 million	3,484
13Abhishek JaiswalAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician	$7.9 million	2,790
14Timothy HatcherMedical Physician Assistant	$7.9 million	9,634
15Devendra KcMedical Oncology Physician	$7.8 million	1,594
16Inderjit SinghPulmonary Disease Physician	$7.7 million	1,036
17Joel SilverSpecialist	$7.5 million	1,662
18Nikolai PodoltsevHematology (Internal Medicine) Physician	$7.5 million	674
19Lynn MastrianniGerontology Nurse Practitioner	$7.1 million	2,022
20Armand RussoMedical Oncology Physician	$7.1 million	1,658
21Todd AlekshunHematology & Oncology Physician	$7.0 million	2,249
22Warren LokStudent in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program	$6.7 million	2,196
23Jeffrey KamradtHematology & Oncology Physician	$6.6 million	1,962
24Jeffrey CohenDermatology Physician	$6.4 million	2,130
25Michael HurwitzMedical Oncology Physician	$6.4 million	1,441
26Wylie HosmerHematology & Oncology Physician	$6.3 million	2,434
27Marc RaadInternal Medicine Physician	$6.3 million	112,729
28Jennifer PersioCritical Care Medicine Nurse Practitioner	$6.1 million	1,153
29Gary BlickInternal Medicine Physician	$6.1 million	6,782
30Mark DaileyHematology & Oncology Physician	$6.1 million	959
31Elan GorsheinHematology & Oncology Physician	$6.1 million	866
32John McArdlePulmonary Disease Physician	$6.0 million	6,271
33Lee WeslerInternal Medicine Physician	$5.9 million	16,847
34Kaiser ToosyPulmonary Disease Physician	$5.8 million	11,297
35Phillip JosephPulmonary Disease Physician	$5.8 million	973
36Michael ImevborePulmonary Disease Physician	$5.8 million	6,283
37David WittHematology & Oncology Physician	$5.7 million	1,368
38Bruce StroberDermatology Physician	$5.7 million	1,871
39Edward DudaHematology & Oncology Physician	$5.6 million	1,623
40Brian ByrneHematology & Oncology Physician	$5.6 million	2,004
41Duarte MachadoNeurology Physician	$5.6 million	6,018
42David OhotnickyFamily Nurse Practitioner	$5.5 million	7,718
43Jason HaldasHematology & Oncology Physician	$5.5 million	2,147
44Philip GoldbergEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician	$5.4 million	12,566
45Jie YangHematology & Oncology Physician	$5.3 million	2,224
46Alice LiStudent in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program	$5.3 million	806
47Emily DuffieldAdult Health Nurse Practitioner	$5.3 million	1,089
48Yousong WangGeneral Practice Physician	$5.2 million	3,836
49Ashita TalsaniaMedical Oncology Physician	$5.2 million	1,527
50Joseph GuarnacciaNeurology Physician	$5.2 million	7,739

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 Connecticut?

Connecticut has 20,119 Medicare Part D prescribers who filed 19,967,850 claims totaling $4.1 billion in drug costs.

What is the opioid prescribing rate in Connecticut?

Opioids were 2.77 of every 100 Medicare Part D claims written by Connecticut prescribers in 2024, against 3.52 nationally (CMS). 10,695 of the state's 20,105 Part D prescribers in CMS's geography file (53.2%) 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.