Drugs and formularies

Medicare Part D Opioid Prescribing Rates by Geography, 2013-2024

medicare_silver.fact_part_d_opioid_prescribing_geo·live·silver

Rows

359,139

Columns

History

N/A

Card

nocolumns only

Typed tools

What it is

1Part D opioid and long-acting opioid prescribing per year for the nation, states, counties and ZIP codes, with rural / urban breakouts: prescribers, opioid prescribers, claims and the published rates with 1- and 5-year changes.
22024 national: 3.52 opioid claims per 100 Part D claims.

Grain

Key	Grain
N/A	1One row per (year, prscrbr_geo_lvl, prscrbr_geo_cd, breakout_type, breakout) per release.

Columns (34)

Column	Type	Meaning
`publisher_version`	string
`year`	int
`prscrbr_geo_lvl`	string
`prscrbr_geo_cd`	string
`prscrbr_geo_desc`	string
`ruca_cd`	string
`breakout_type`	string
`breakout`	string
`tot_prscrbrs`	bigint
`tot_opioid_prscrbrs`	bigint
`tot_opioid_clms`	double
`tot_clms`	double
`opioid_prscrbng_rate`	double
`opioid_prscrbng_rate_5y_chg`	double
`opioid_prscrbng_rate_1y_chg`	double
`la_tot_opioid_clms`	double
`la_opioid_prscrbng_rate`	double
`la_opioid_prscrbng_rate_5y_chg`	double
`la_opioid_prscrbng_rate_1y_chg`	double
`observed_period`	date
`asserted_at`	date
`effective_period_start`	date
`effective_period_end`	date
`cms_vintage_sequence`	int
`parse_revision`	int
`parser_artifact_hash`	string
`source_url`	string
`sha256_content_hash`	string
`source_id`	string
`is_current`	boolean
`bronze_object_key`	string
`s3_version_id`	string
`vintage_tag`	string
`drug_source_version_id`	string

Query it

describe_data_source(source_fqn="medicare_silver.fact_part_d_opioid_prescribing_geo")     # the card, live
query_substrate(sql="SELECT * FROM medicare_silver.fact_part_d_opioid_prescribing_geo WHERE <filter> LIMIT 100")

Item	Value
Typed tools that read it	none; raw SQL
Identity key	`year,prscrbr_geo_lvl,prscrbr_geo_cd,breakout_type,breakout`
Join	`how_to_join(source_fqn="medicare_silver.fact_part_d_opioid_prescribing_geo")`
Raw door	Athena (read-only via query_substrate): medicare_silver.fact_part_d_opioid_prescribing_geo
Note	Register source cms_part_d_opioid_prescribing_geo (w3, serve raw). RAW. Loaded 2026-09-29 (verify_tracker_loads PASS 2026-09-30: 359,139 rows over 12 years, NULL counts per column equal the publisher's blank cells, county / ZIP codes 5 characters; Athena df9c94ad, a3a39a12, aed1a947). Cell reconciliation PASS (row count and prescriber sums over the whole file). Registered 2026-09-30 in W3 beside the Part D prescriber sources.

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