NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Minnesota Medicare prescriber rankings

26,278 Minnesota prescribers billed $4.3 billion in Medicare Part D drugs in 2024, the 25th largest of 56 states and territories. Opioids were 3.04 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).
  • Prescribers26,278
  • Part D drug cost$4.3 billion
  • Average per prescriber$164,301
  • Wrote an opioid (CMS)16,342 (62.2%)
  • Opioid claims per 100 claims (CMS)3.04

Reading the Minnesota tables

Minnesota's 26,278 prescribers wrote 27,270,073 Part D claims in 2024, about $164,301 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 costClaims
1Kimberly ThompsonNurse Practitioner$22.0 million2,665
2Vladimir HugecHematology & Oncology Physician$20.2 million4,047
3Thenappan ThenappanCardiovascular Disease Physician$15.9 million3,342
4Marc PritzkerCardiovascular Disease Physician$15.5 million2,972
5Hani AlkhatibHematology & Oncology Physician$10.5 million3,049
6Peter ZimbwaAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$9.8 million3,652
7Hilary DubrockPulmonary Disease Physician$9.8 million1,126
8Bryan TrottierHematology & Oncology Physician$8.7 million1,674
9Gautam JhaHematology & Oncology Physician$8.6 million2,082
10Robert FrantzAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$8.3 million1,651
11Robert DelauneHematology & Oncology Physician$8.1 million2,196
12Janell FrantzNurse Practitioner$7.7 million1,538
13Mayra Oberto-MedinaRheumatology Physician$7.6 million3,324
14Ben ZhangHematology & Oncology Physician$7.3 million1,973
15Aby PhilipHematology & Oncology Physician$6.8 million3,676
16Balkrishna JahagirdarHematology & Oncology Physician$6.7 million1,928
17Hilary UfearoHematology & Oncology Physician$6.7 million2,315
18Birendra KumarHematology & Oncology Physician$6.6 million1,775
19Peter KebbekusHematology & Oncology Physician$6.5 million1,504
20Kristie ElghaziAdult Health Nurse Practitioner$6.5 million2,063
21Clemencia RasquinhaGeriatric Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician$6.3 million94,836
22Barry CabuayAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$6.3 million2,852
23Omar Abou EzzeddineAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$6.2 million1,211
24Hector CajigasPulmonary Disease Physician$6.1 million1,070
25Chester WhitleyPediatrics Physician$6.1 million258
26Randal RichardsonNeurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology Physician$6.0 million455
27Avanti MehrotraHematology & Oncology Physician$5.8 million1,983
28Michael SamaraAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$5.8 million3,693
29Kyle SinclairRheumatology Physician$5.7 million4,317
30Aaron MilbankUrology Physician$5.7 million2,044
31Sudhir KushwahaAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$5.6 million1,606
32Suresh DevineniHematology & Oncology Physician$5.6 million2,161
33Valmiki MaharajAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$5.6 million2,137
34Peter HurleyHematology & Oncology Physician$5.5 million1,545
35Samy El-HalawaniPulmonary Disease Physician$5.4 million3,137
36Pavan Kumar BhamidipatiHematology & Oncology Physician$5.4 million2,868
37Edward LoftusGastroenterology Physician$5.4 million993
38Marion RafloresHematology & Oncology Physician$5.3 million3,494
39Daniel NikcevichHematology (Internal Medicine) Physician$5.3 million2,196
40Morie GertzHematology (Internal Medicine) Physician$5.2 million830
41Martha GroganCardiovascular Disease Physician$5.2 million372
42Steven RouseyHematology & Oncology Physician$5.2 million1,855
43Uzma AliHematology & Oncology Physician$5.2 million1,693
44Girum LemmaHematology & Oncology Physician$5.1 million1,031
45Katarzyna HryniewiczAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$5.0 million3,648
46George FroehlePhysician Assistant$5.0 million5,753
47Jessica LahtiPhysician Assistant$4.8 million1,107
48Yang LiuHematology & Oncology Physician$4.8 million1,799
49Charles PinkermanCardiovascular Disease Physician$4.8 million1,888
50Frank RhameInfectious Disease Physician$4.6 million3,960

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 Minnesota?

Minnesota has 26,278 Medicare Part D prescribers who filed 27,270,073 claims totaling $4.3 billion in drug costs.

What is the opioid prescribing rate in Minnesota?

Opioids were 3.04 of every 100 Medicare Part D claims written by Minnesota prescribers in 2024, against 3.52 nationally (CMS). 16,342 of the state's 26,275 Part D prescribers in CMS's geography file (62.2%) 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.

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).