District of Columbia Medicare prescriber rankings

5,295 District of Columbia prescribers billed $727.4 million in Medicare Part D drugs in 2024, the 46th largest of 56 states and territories. Opioids were 2.61 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).

Prescribers5,295
Part D drug cost$727.4 million
Average per prescriber$137,373
Wrote an opioid (CMS)2,776 (52.86%)
Opioid claims per 100 claims (CMS)2.61

Reading the District of Columbia tables

District of Columbia's 5,295 prescribers wrote 2,492,986 Part D claims in 2024, about $137,373 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 50 highest Part D drug-cost totals

Prescriber (NPPES taxonomy)	Drug cost	Claims
1Mrinalini KrishnanCardiovascular Disease Physician	$13.9 million	1,766
2Leslie KingslowPulmonary Disease Physician	$9.1 million	3,567
3Anusha VakitiHematology & Oncology Physician	$7.3 million	2,479
4Bruce KresselHematology & Oncology Physician	$7.3 million	890
5Farooq SheikhAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician	$7.2 million	1,460
6George PhilipsHematology & Oncology Physician	$7.1 million	1,153
7Aimee ChappellAdult Health Nurse Practitioner	$7.1 million	968
8Nancy DawsonMedical Oncology Physician	$7.0 million	1,399
9Jose ChavezInfectious Disease Physician	$6.8 million	3,111
10Gebeyehu TeferiInfectious Disease Physician	$6.1 million	3,017
11Piyapong VongkovitHematology & Oncology Physician	$5.8 million	1,685
12Puja AroraHematology & Oncology Physician	$5.8 million	2,163
13Khadega Abuelgasim AhmedInternal Medicine Physician	$5.4 million	798
14John HoganGastroenterology Physician	$5.2 million	2,650
15Antoine FinianosStudent in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program	$5.2 million	1,781
16Yasar Torres-YaghiNeurology Physician	$5.0 million	3,455
17Michael KellerAllergy & Immunology Physician	$4.7 million	30
18Catherine BroomeHematology & Oncology Physician	$4.6 million	475
19Neil ShahHematology & Oncology Physician	$4.4 million	552
20Aarthi ShenoyHematology & Oncology Physician	$4.4 million	593
21Mark MattarGastroenterology Physician	$4.1 million	301
22Khaled El-ShamiMedical Oncology Physician	$3.9 million	708
23Fahd AmjadNeurology Physician	$3.6 million	2,707
24Karen FaganPulmonary Disease Physician	$3.5 million	697
25Craig KesslerHematology & Oncology Physician	$3.3 million	477
26Joseph HugginsNurse Practitioner	$3.1 million	3,505
27Sarah HennInfectious Disease Physician	$3.1 million	3,133
28Robert SiegelHematology & Oncology Physician	$3.1 million	584
29Mardi Gomberg-MaitlandCardiovascular Disease Physician	$3.1 million	619
30Ammar AlhaddadPulmonary Disease Physician	$3.0 million	3,530
31Imad TabbaraHematology & Oncology Physician	$3.0 million	948
32Ahmed AliHematology & Oncology Physician	$2.9 million	917
33Jacqueline CadenaFamily Nurse Practitioner	$2.9 million	1,861
34David FesslerInternal Medicine Physician	$2.9 million	2,992
35Jose BordonInfectious Disease Physician	$2.8 million	1,457
36Gonul OzayStudent in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program	$2.7 million	1,695
37Afsoon RobertsInfectious Disease Physician	$2.7 million	1,076
38Marc SiegelInfectious Disease Physician	$2.7 million	1,057
39Benjamin OsborneNeurology Physician	$2.7 million	813
40Aparna DasInternal Medicine Physician	$2.6 million	5,394
41Saira BilalRheumatology Physician	$2.6 million	1,833
42Julianna BarsonyEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician	$2.6 million	360
43Rui LuEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician	$2.5 million	4,202
44Faria AmjadNeurology Physician	$2.5 million	1,086
45Gurusher PanjrathAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician	$2.5 million	2,365
46Rodolfo CurielRheumatology Physician	$2.5 million	1,781
47Henry FoxHematology & Oncology Physician	$2.5 million	644
48Gilbert DanielInternal Medicine Physician	$2.4 million	19,132
49Deborah KimInternal Medicine Physician	$2.3 million	971
50Chocoma DarochaPhysician Assistant	$2.3 million	1,544

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 District of Columbia?

District of Columbia has 5,295 Medicare Part D prescribers who filed 2,492,986 claims totaling $727.4 million in drug costs.

What is the opioid prescribing rate in District of Columbia?

Opioids were 2.61 of every 100 Medicare Part D claims written by District of Columbia prescribers in 2024, against 3.52 nationally (CMS). 2,776 of the state's 5,252 Part D prescribers in CMS's geography file (52.86%) 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.