Modafinil
Brand names: Modafinil, Provigil
At a glance
- Medicare prescriptions, 2024
- 215,087
- Medicare drug cost
- $18.1M
- Average cost per prescription
- $84.36
- Clinicians who prescribed it
- 9,843
Where it is prescribed
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What it is used for
PROVIGIL is indicated to improve wakefulness in adult patients with excessive sleepiness associated with narcolepsy, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), or shift work disorder (SWD).
From the FDA-approved prescribing information (label dated August 2025). Full labels on DailyMed (opens in a new tab)
Who prescribes it
- Neurology 21.9%
- Nurse Practitioners 14.6%
- Psychiatry 12.5%
- Pulmonology 10.3%
- Family Medicine 9.6%
- Internal Medicine 8.6%
- Sleep Medicine 6.7%
- Physician Assistants 6.2%
- Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners 4.4%
- Critical Care Medicine 0.9%
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) 0.6%
- Rheumatology 0.6%
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Share of Medicare prescriptions written by each specialty. Select one to list its prescribers.
Trend, 2019–2024
Medicare prescriptions rose 17% from 2019 to 2024.
Biggest change by state since 2019
- Alabama +38%
- Virginia +38%
- Wisconsin +33%
- Washington +32%
- Florida +28%
- California (smallest change) +1%
- New Jersey (smallest change) +1%
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 4 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.
Apotex Corp
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 100 mg | white capsule, 13 mm | 100MG PROVIGIL |
| 200 mg | white capsule, 13 mm | 200MG PROVIGIL |
Asclemed USA Inc.
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 100 mg | white capsule, 13 mm | 41 J |
| 200 mg | white capsule, 16 mm, scored to split in 2 | 4 2 J |
Golden State Medical Supply, Inc.
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 100 mg | white capsule, 13 mm | 100MG PROVIGIL |
| 200 mg | white capsule, 13 mm | 200MG PROVIGIL |
Heritage Pharmaceuticals Inc. D/b/a Avet Pharmaceuticals Inc.
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 100 mg | white capsule, 13 mm | AC 132 |
| 200 mg | white capsule, 16 mm, scored to split in 2 | AC 133 |
| 200 mg | white round tablet, 11 mm, scored to split in 2 | AC 133 |
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.