Georgia Medicare prescriber rankings
37,951 Georgia prescribers billed $9.2 billion in Medicare Part D drugs in 2024, the 10th largest of 56 states and territories. Opioids were 4.32 of every 100 of those claims (CMS), above the national 3.52.
- Prescribers37,951
- Part D drug cost$9.2 billion
- Average per prescriber$241,198
- Wrote an opioid (CMS)22,611 (59.6%)
- Opioid claims per 100 claims (CMS)4.32
Reading the Georgia tables
Georgia's 37,951 prescribers wrote 54,009,472 Part D claims in 2024, about $241,198 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1Hunter ChampionCardiovascular Disease Physician | $50.1 million | 13,712 |
| 2Kunal BhattAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician | $20.2 million | 3,878 |
| 3Harsha VyasHematology & Oncology Physician | $18.6 million | 4,716 |
| 4Lori ReedFamily Nurse Practitioner | $15.8 million | 2,785 |
| 5Chad MillerPulmonary Disease Physician | $14.0 million | 2,777 |
| 6Kashyap ChoksiCardiovascular Disease Physician | $13.0 million | 22,688 |
| 7Jose TongolHematology & Oncology Physician | $12.9 million | 6,018 |
| 8Ovidiu NegreaMedical Oncology Physician | $12.6 million | 3,437 |
| 9Ajay NookaMedical Oncology Physician | $12.3 million | 1,570 |
| 10Robert MilesCardiovascular Disease Physician | $12.3 million | 15,787 |
| 11Vasileios AssikisHematology & Oncology Physician | $11.8 million | 3,558 |
| 12Andrew DarlingtonAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician | $11.6 million | 11,721 |
| 13Jonathan KaufmanMedical Oncology Physician | $11.3 million | 1,475 |
| 14Andrew PippasMedical Oncology Physician | $11.3 million | 4,389 |
| 15Thomas NealHematology & Oncology Physician | $11.1 million | 4,070 |
| 16John DemiccoInternal Medicine Physician | $10.8 million | 16,028 |
| 17Varsha TaskarPulmonary Disease Physician | $10.8 million | 5,334 |
| 18Michael RivnerClinical Neurophysiology Physician | $10.6 million | 1,598 |
| 19Minesh PatelHematology & Oncology Physician | $10.5 million | 5,126 |
| 20Craig HofmeisterHematology (Internal Medicine) Physician | $10.2 million | 1,555 |
| 21Vipin Ramprasad LohiyaHematology & Oncology Physician | $10.1 million | 4,026 |
| 22Terence FrinksFamily Medicine Physician | $9.9 million | 172,967 |
| 23James HuntRheumatology Physician | $9.7 million | 4,042 |
| 24Petros NikolinakosHematology & Oncology Physician | $9.5 million | 2,728 |
| 25James MossellRheumatology Physician | $9.4 million | 9,661 |
| 26Nitin GuptaGastroenterology Physician | $9.4 million | 2,357 |
| 27Ronald WattsSpecialist | $9.3 million | 11,772 |
| 28Folarin OlubowaleInfectious Disease Physician | $9.3 million | 3,031 |
| 29Anthony HunterHematology & Oncology Physician | $9.3 million | 866 |
| 30William HuntPulmonary Disease Physician | $9.3 million | 1,410 |
| 31William ChafinRheumatology Physician | $9.2 million | 6,446 |
| 32Rocio Garcia SantibanezNeuromuscular Medicine (Psychiatry & Neurology) Physician | $9.2 million | 1,586 |
| 33Jonathan BenderHematology & Oncology Physician | $9.0 million | 3,465 |
| 34Young KangAdolescent Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician | $8.9 million | 52,710 |
| 35Sagar LonialHematology (Internal Medicine) Physician | $8.9 million | 1,035 |
| 36Jennifer YannucciHematology & Oncology Physician | $8.9 million | 2,795 |
| 37Melissa StevensonFamily Nurse Practitioner | $8.7 million | 3,470 |
| 38Jigarkumar ParikhHematology & Oncology Physician | $8.7 million | 2,010 |
| 39Shawn KimInternal Medicine Physician | $8.7 million | 38,582 |
| 40Sarah JimenezNurse Practitioner | $8.7 million | 2,304 |
| 41Neil LavaNeurology Physician | $8.6 million | 4,250 |
| 42Trevor FeinsteinHematology & Oncology Physician | $8.6 million | 4,310 |
| 43Peter JiangHematology & Oncology Physician | $8.4 million | 3,230 |
| 44Ugochukwu EgolumAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician | $8.3 million | 8,447 |
| 45Michael PeacockInternal Medicine Physician | $8.3 million | 121,047 |
| 46Nisha JosephMedical Oncology Physician | $8.2 million | 867 |
| 47Angela PhamRheumatology Physician | $8.1 million | 4,632 |
| 48Mehmet BilenHematology & Oncology Physician | $8.1 million | 1,652 |
| 49Douglas WolfGastroenterology Physician | $8.0 million | 958 |
| 50Marta BognarRheumatology Physician | $8.0 million | 8,176 |
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 Georgia?
Georgia has 37,951 Medicare Part D prescribers who filed 54,009,472 claims totaling $9.2 billion in drug costs.
What is the opioid prescribing rate in Georgia?
Opioids were 4.32 of every 100 Medicare Part D claims written by Georgia prescribers in 2024, against 3.52 nationally (CMS). 22,611 of the state's 37,936 Part D prescribers in CMS's geography file (59.6%) 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.
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