Galantamine Hbr
Brand names: Galantamine Er, Galantamine Hbr, Galantamine Hydrobromide
Part of: Dementia drugs
At a glance
- Medicare prescriptions, 2024
- 185,720
- Medicare drug cost
- $14.7M
- Average cost per prescription
- $79.14
- Clinicians who prescribed it
- 4,788
Where it is prescribed
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What it is used for
Galantamine tablets are indicated for the treatment of mild to moderate dementia of the Alzheimer’s type.
From the FDA-approved prescribing information (label dated May 2026). Full labels on DailyMed (opens in a new tab)
Who prescribes it
- Neurology 38.2%
- Nurse Practitioners 17.7%
- Internal Medicine 14.7%
- Family Medicine 12.1%
- Geriatric Medicine 3.9%
- General Practice 3.5%
- Psychiatry 3.1%
- Physician Assistants 2.6%
- Hospitalist 1.1%
- Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners 1.1%
- Pain Medicine 0.5%
- Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine 0.2%
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Share of Medicare prescriptions written by each specialty. Select one to list its prescribers.
Trend, 2019–2024
Medicare prescriptions rose 10% from 2019 to 2024.
Biggest change by state since 2019
- Ohio +65%
- New York +31%
- Puerto Rico +24%
- Illinois +22%
- Texas +14%
- Pennsylvania (smallest change) −37%
- Michigan (smallest change) −21%
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 1 maker 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.
Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 4 mg | white round tablet, 5 mm | YB 111 |
| 8 mg | purple round tablet, 7 mm | YB 112 |
| 12 mg | pink round tablet, 8 mm | YB 113 |
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.
No FDA-reported recalls since 2020.
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.