Clinician type
Pharmacists
At a glance
- Practicing in the U.S.
- 327,115
- Per 100,000 residents
- 96.7
- Women
- 60%
- Median years since graduating
- 9
Who they are
- Women 60%
- Graduated 35 or more years ago 0%
- Offer telehealth 2%
- Accept Medicare’s approved amount 19%
Sex and credentials from NPPES. Graduation year, telehealth and Medicare assignment from Medicare Care Compare, which covers clinicians enrolled in Medicare.
Where they practice
What they do most for Medicare patients
- Provision of covid-19 test, nonprescription self-administered and self-collected use, fda approved, authorized or cleared, one test count 649,926
- Administration of influenza virus vaccine 14,888
- Admn sarscov2 vacc 1 dose 9,812
- Adm sarscv2 bvl 50mcg/.5ml a 1,803
- Covid-19 vaccine administration inside a patient's home; reported only once per individual home per date of service when only covid-19 vaccine administration is performed at the patient's home 1,049
- Adm sarscv2 bvl 30mcg/.3ml a 940
- Administration of pneumococcal vaccine 812
- Sarscov2 vac bvl 50mcg/0.5ml 157
- Sarscov2 vac bvl 30mcg/0.3ml 43
- Diabetes outpatient self-management training services, individual, per 30 minutes 16
Services billed to traditional Medicare in 2023 (Physician and Other Practitioners data); drugs given in the office are left out.
What they prescribe most
- Varicella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf (Shingrix) 21.6%
- Rsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf (Arexvy) 15.2%
- Rsv Vacc, Pref A And Pref B/Pf (Abrysvo) 7.7%
- Diphth,pertuss(Acell),tet Vac (Boostrix Tdap) 6.8%
- Warfarin Sodium (Jantoven) 3.4%
- Metformin Hcl (Glumetza, Metformin Er Gastric, Metformin Er Osmotic) 3.3%
- Atorvastatin Calcium (Atorvaliq, Lipitor) 3.2%
- Dabigatran Etexilate Mesylate (Dabigatran Etexilate, Pradaxa) 2.9%
- Semaglutide (Ozempic, Rybelsus, Wegovy) 2.0%
- Apixaban (Eliquis) 2.0%
- Glipizide (Glucotrol Xl) 1.6%
- Empagliflozin (Jardiance) 1.6%
- Lisinopril (Qbrelis, Zestril) 1.2%
- Amlodipine Besylate (Norliqva, Norvasc) 1.1%
- Losartan Potassium (Cozaar) 1.1%
Share of this specialty’s Medicare Part D prescriptions in 2024, including refills. Select a drug to see which of these clinicians prescribe it most, and where.
Hospitals where the most work
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital - South Bay Harbor City, CA 1 Pharmacists at Kaiser Foundation Hospital - South Bay
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital Fontana/ontario Fontana, CA 1 Pharmacists at Kaiser Foundation Hospital Fontana/ontario
- Tri-City Medical Center Oceanside, CA 1 Pharmacists at Tri-City Medical Center
- Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA 1 Pharmacists at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Clinicians who list the hospital in Medicare Care Compare. The number opens the list of who works there.
Schools they graduated from most
- Loma Linda University School of Medicine 2
- Northwestern College of Chiropractic 1
- University of Kentucky College of Medicine 1
- University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine 1
- University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School 1
- University of Washington School of Medicine 1
From Medicare Care Compare (Medicare-enrolled clinicians only).
Industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $9,943 in general payments to 54 clinicians in Pharmacists in 2025. See who received the most
Source: CMS Open Payments, program year 2025. A payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.
Sources: CMS NPPES (counts, sex, credentials), Medicare Care Compare (schools, graduation years, hospitals, telehealth), CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners (2023) and Part D Prescribers (2024), CMS Open Payments (2025), ACGME program requirements (training length), OpenAlex (research), U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2020–2024 (population).