Calcium Acetate
Brand names: Calcium Acetate
At a glance
- Medicare prescriptions, 2024
- 278,682
- Medicare drug cost
- $20.6M
- Average cost per prescription
- $73.92
- Clinicians who prescribed it
- 8,875
Where it is prescribed
List the prescribers in any state, county, city or ZIP code →
What it is used for
1. INDICATIONS & USAGE Calcium acetate capsules are a phosphate binder indicated to reduce serum phosphorus in patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD).
From the FDA-approved prescribing information (label dated May 2026). Full labels on DailyMed (opens in a new tab)
Who prescribes it
- Nephrology (Kidney) 56.3%
- Nurse Practitioners 18.1%
- Internal Medicine 11.8%
- Family Medicine 6.9%
- Physician Assistants 3.0%
- Geriatric Medicine 1.4%
- Hospitalist 0.7%
- General Practice 0.5%
- Emergency Medicine 0.1%
- Hospice & Palliative Medicine 0.1%
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) 0.1%
- Pulmonology 0.1%
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Share of Medicare prescriptions written by each specialty. Select one to list its prescribers.
Trend, 2019–2024
Medicare prescriptions fell 31% from 2019 to 2024.
Biggest change by state since 2019
- Puerto Rico +13%
- Washington −14%
- California −19%
- Arkansas −20%
- Maryland −20%
- Massachusetts (smallest change) −51%
- Louisiana (smallest change) −43%
From CMS’s yearly state and national Part D summaries, which count every prescriber, including those CMS leaves out of its per-clinician data (fewer than 11 prescriptions). That is why these totals are higher than the count at the top of this page. Prescriptions include refills.
What it looks like
Pills from 5 makers on file. The same medicine can look different depending on who made it, so check the imprint (the letters and numbers on the pill) with your pharmacist if a refill looks different.
American Health PAckaging
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 667 mg | blue capsule, 22 mm | 54 215 54 215 |
Avion Pharmaceuticals, LLC
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 85 mg / 1000 [iU] cholecalciferol / 10 [iU] .alpha.-tocopherol acetate, dl- / 1 mg folic acid / 25 mg pyridoxine hydrochloride / 12 ug cyanocobalamin / 500 ug biotin / 160 mg calcium / 27 mg iron / 45 mg magnesium oxide / 10 mg lactic acid / 400 mg doconexent | blue oval capsule, 22 mm | OMEGARX |
Avpak
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 667 mg | green capsule, 25 mm | NC 667 |
First Nation Group
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 952 mg / 1347 mg aluminum sulfate tetradecahydrate | white powder | |
Pd-Rx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 667 mg | white capsule, 23 mm | S086 |
Source: DailyMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine), from each maker’s FDA drug listing. A few makers are shown, not every one. Never take a pill you can’t identify; ask a pharmacist.
Industry payments about this drug
No industry payments to clinicians named this drug in 2025.
Recalls and shortages
Not on the FDA drug shortage list.
1 recall since 2020
- Mar 2021 · Cardinal Health Inc. · Class II
CGMP Deviations: Intermittent exposure to temperature excursion during storage.
Recalls usually affect specific lots from one maker, not every version of a drug. Class I is the most serious; most drug recalls are Class II. FDA recalls (opens in a new tab)
Sources: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider and Drug (2024; prescriptions include refills, and CMS hides counts under 11 per prescriber); U.S. Food and Drug Administration, openFDA (drug labels, NDC directory, enforcement reports, drug shortages); CMS Open Payments 2025; ClinicalTrials.gov. General information only, not medical advice; not yet reviewed by our medical reviewer.