Potassium Citrate
Brand names: Potassium Citrate Er, Urocit-K
At a glance
- Medicare prescriptions, 2024
- 325,597
- Medicare drug cost
- $30.3M
- Average cost per prescription
- $93.01
- Clinicians who prescribed it
- 11,790
Where it is prescribed
List the prescribers in any state, county, city or ZIP code →
What it is used for
Potassium citrate is a citrate salt of potassium indicated for the management of: Renal tubular acidosis (RTA) with calcium stones Hypocitraturic calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis of any etiology Uric acid lithiasis with or without calcium stones 1.1 Renal Tubular Acidosis (RTA) with
From the FDA-approved prescribing information (label dated July 2026). Full labels on DailyMed (opens in a new tab)
Who prescribes it
- Urology 44.5%
- Nephrology (Kidney) 20.1%
- Nurse Practitioners 10.0%
- Internal Medicine 8.1%
- Physician Assistants 8.0%
- Family Medicine 6.4%
- Endocrinology & Diabetes 0.6%
- Geriatric Medicine 0.5%
- General Practice 0.5%
- Cardiology 0.2%
- Hospitalist 0.1%
- Urogynecology 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 rose 16% from 2019 to 2024.
Biggest change by state since 2019
- Alabama +40%
- Connecticut +39%
- Maryland +38%
- Washington +35%
- Michigan +30%
- Arizona (smallest change) +3%
- Tennessee (smallest change) +5%
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.
Bryant Ranch Prepack
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 10 meq | white capsule, 18 mm | ANI 291 |
Mission Pharmacal Company
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 5 meq | yellow round tablet, 10 mm | MPC 600 |
| 10 meq | yellow oval tablet, 19 mm | MPC 610 MISSION |
| 15 meq | yellow rectangle tablet, 20 mm | M15 |
Remedyrepack Inc.
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 10 meq | yellow capsule, 18 mm | T400 |
Rising Pharma Holdings, Inc.
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 540 mg | yellow round tablet, 10 mm | C104 |
| 1080 mg | yellow capsule, 19 mm | C105 |
V2 Pharma LLC
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 90 mg / 15 ug cholecalciferol / 14.74 mg .alpha.-tocopherol acetate, d- / 26 mg pyridoxine hcl / 1000 ug folic acid / 13 ug methylcobalamin / 280 ug biotin / 27 mg iron / 150 ug iodine / 75 mg magnesium | white capsule, 16 mm | |
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.