NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Kentucky Medicare prescriber rankings

19,568 Kentucky prescribers billed $5.0 billion in Medicare Part D drugs in 2024, the 20th largest of 56 states and territories. Opioids were 4.46 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).
  • Prescribers19,568
  • Part D drug cost$5.0 billion
  • Average per prescriber$254,604
  • Wrote an opioid (CMS)10,463 (53.82%)
  • Opioid claims per 100 claims (CMS)4.46

Reading the Kentucky tables

Kentucky's 19,568 prescribers wrote 33,224,940 Part D claims in 2024, about $254,604 in drug cost per prescriber. A high total usually reflects specialty practice, such as cancer, rheumatology or HIV care, or vaccines: 2 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
1Abigail StockerGastroenterology Physician$45.6 million8,005
2John McConnellPulmonary Disease Physician$38.7 million5,155
3Andrew KolodziejAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$13.8 million7,237
4Zin MyintMedical Oncology Physician$13.1 million2,394
5Samuel BaileyHematology & Oncology Physician$13.0 million3,918
6Mansoor AhmedRheumatology Physician$11.9 million10,002
7Timothy RaymondAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$11.9 million5,710
8Jimmy SmithCritical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician$10.5 million1,141
9Firas BadinHematology & Oncology Physician$10.1 million2,311
10Leon ButlerInternal Medicine Physician$9.5 million147,098
11Melissa KnucklesDermatology Physician$9.2 million8,033
12Sergio Chang FigueroaEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician$8.9 million12,576
13Christopher PhillipsInternal Medicine Physician$8.8 million11,676
14Lee HicksHematology & Oncology Physician$8.7 million2,004
15Arvinda PadmanabhanMedical Oncology Physician$8.7 million2,462
16Timothy LoneskyRheumatology Physician$8.4 million2,923
17Wael EidEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician$8.0 million9,541
18David BoothCardiovascular Disease Physician$7.9 million2,246
19Don StevensMedical Oncology Physician$7.5 million2,454
20Joshua NecampHematology & Oncology Physician$7.5 million2,107
21Jewraj MaheshwariMedical Oncology Physician$7.4 million4,341
22Gregory MonohanHematology (Internal Medicine) Physician$7.3 million1,785
23Wederson ClaudinoMedical Oncology Physician$7.2 million4,513
24Alexander BrownRheumatology Physician$7.1 million7,922
25James WinkleyNeurology Physician$7.1 million7,038
26Amy StuffelbeamPhysician Assistant$7.1 million1,014
27Scott LewisRheumatology Physician$7.0 million3,154
28Ronak ChaudhariEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician$6.9 million16,450
29Geeta GaneshNeurology Physician$6.8 million3,505
30Hisham AlrefaiEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician$6.6 million11,262
31Scott PierceHematology & Oncology Physician$6.5 million1,987
32William BriggsMedical Physician Assistant$6.5 million3,307
33Syed AbbasRheumatology Physician$6.5 million7,318
34Michael AnsteadPediatric Pulmonology Physician$6.4 million2,783
35Dionyzia DedinaNurse Practitioner$6.3 million2,586
36Vidya SeshadriHematology & Oncology Physician$6.3 million2,216
37Deborah FlomenhoftGastroenterology Physician$6.2 million1,856
38John RichardFamily Medicine Physician$6.2 million61,626
39Corey HatfieldRheumatology Physician$6.2 million7,150
40Azmi DrawPulmonary Disease Physician$6.2 million18,011
41Ayman QasrawiHematology & Oncology Physician$6.1 million1,479
42Erika WhelanFamily Nurse Practitionermostly vaccines, often billed by pharmacies under a standing order naming this clinician$6.0 million25,239
43Kimberly CookFamily Nurse Practitioner$6.0 million4,051
44Mehdi PoorkayEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician$6.0 million17,142
45Raymond ElsoueidiHematology & Oncology Physician$6.0 million1,670
46David ZetterGeneral Practice Physician$5.9 million77,812
47Geertruida KintsEmergency Medicine Physicianmostly vaccines, often billed by pharmacies under a standing order naming this clinician$5.9 million28,155
48Nathan GarrettAcute Care Nurse Practitioner$5.9 million1,540
49Troy TakagishiRheumatology Physician$5.9 million3,618
50Robert LarkeUrology Physician$5.8 million2,553

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 Kentucky?

Kentucky has 19,568 Medicare Part D prescribers who filed 33,224,940 claims totaling $5.0 billion in drug costs.

What is the opioid prescribing rate in Kentucky?

Opioids were 4.46 of every 100 Medicare Part D claims written by Kentucky prescribers in 2024, against 3.52 nationally (CMS). 10,463 of the state's 19,441 Part D prescribers in CMS's geography file (53.82%) 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).