Nitroglycerin
Brand names: Nitro-Dur, Nitroglycerin Patch, Nitro-Bid, Nitroglycerin, Nitrostat, Rectiv
At a glance
- Medicare prescriptions, 2024
- 1,749,486
- Medicare drug cost
- $27.3M
- Average cost per prescription
- $15.61
- Clinicians who prescribed it
- 52,916
Where it is prescribed
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What it is used for
Nitroglycerin sublingual tablets are indicated for the acute relief of an attack or acute prophylaxis of angina pectoris due to coronary artery disease.
From the FDA-approved prescribing information (label dated September 2026). Full labels on DailyMed (opens in a new tab)
Who prescribes it
- Cardiology 32.7%
- Nurse Practitioners 15.1%
- Family Medicine 14.5%
- Internal Medicine 14.3%
- Interventional Cardiology 13.2%
- Physician Assistants 5.3%
- General Practice 1.3%
- Cardiac Electrophysiology 0.8%
- Geriatric Medicine 0.7%
- Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology 0.4%
- Hospitalist 0.4%
- Nuclear 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 fell 4% from 2019 to 2024.
Biggest change by state since 2019
- Utah +14%
- Arkansas +12%
- Nevada +7%
- Washington +7%
- Kentucky +6%
- New Jersey (smallest change) −26%
- Rhode Island (smallest change) −19%
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 3 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.
A-S Medication Solutions
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 0.4 mg | white round tablet, 4 mm | A 4 |
Henry Schein, Inc.
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 0.4 mg | white round tablet, 4 mm | N 4 |
Medical Purchasing Solutions, LLC.
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 0.4 mg | white round tablet, 5 mm | L 4 |
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.
4 recalls since 2020
- Jul 2026 · American Regent, Inc. · Class II
Presence of Particulate Matter: Product contaminated with particulate matter identified as hair, glass and/or paraformaldehyde - Mar 2025 · Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc., USA · Class II
CGMP Deviations - Dec 2021 · Padagis US LLC · Class II
Defective Delivery System - 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.