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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2016 22:59:37 GMT -5
According to Sam's list of doctors who prescribing Afrezza, CA,FL,VA, rank the top 3 states. I can understand why CA ranks #1. But why VA has so many doctors?
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Post by babaoriley on Jul 31, 2016 0:59:57 GMT -5
Given the number of docs prescribing Afrezza (pretty small), if there were half dozen reps who were Afrezza go-getters in VA (or maybe even 1), it would skew things such that a statistic like the above could be correct.
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Post by kball on Jul 31, 2016 7:41:57 GMT -5
According to Sam's list of doctors who prescribing Afrezza, CA,FL,VA, rank the top 3 states. I can understand why CA ranks #1. But why VA has so many doctors? The initial answer i would think has less to do with so many doctors, and more to do with insurance in that state accepting the prescription with less hoops (downright freakin obstacle courses lets be real) to go thru. Hence more Drs having success prescribing At least that would be my uneducated educated guess |
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Post by mydogskip on Jul 31, 2016 8:09:21 GMT -5
According to Sam's list of doctors who prescribing Afrezza, CA,FL,VA, rank the top 3 states. I can understand why CA ranks #1. But why VA has so many doctors? VA has tons of doctors to take care of the multitude of Gov Worker Bees that live in the state. |
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Post by dejude42 on Jul 31, 2016 8:32:33 GMT -5
Need to get OHIO in the picture....being a swing state!!!
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Post by dcassidy1618a on Aug 1, 2016 10:57:05 GMT -5
All doctors can prescribe afrzza; it seems more important to know why those do, under what circumstances, for how many and what kind of patients, etc.
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Post by compound26 on Aug 1, 2016 11:38:37 GMT -5
Given the number of docs prescribing Afrezza (pretty small), if there were half dozen reps who were Afrezza go-getters in VA (or maybe even 1), it would skew things such that a statistic like the above could be correct. Not sure why there are so many doctors from Virginia on Sam's list. Maybe a pure coincidence?  babaoriley I think some of us here underestimated the number of doctors that have prescribed Afrezza. At one point, some of us here thought that maybe 100-200 doctors had ever wrote a prescription of Afrezza. However, according to Mike C's presentation at ASM, Sanofi targeted at 50,000 physicians and among those 50,000 physicians, 3,000 of them wrote one or more prescriptions of Afrezza. So, there are 3,000 physicians who wrote Afrezza prescriptions and Sam's list, as of today, has 123 physicians listed. So Sam's list captures 4% of all the physicians who wrote Afrezza prescriptions. However, since Sam presumably got this list mainly through input from satisfactory Afrezza users, hopefully, most of the physicians on his list are among the top prescribers. I recall that Mannkind will have a docfinder on the web (probably in third quarter, if I recall correctly). I would guess its doctor finder will have a much larger number of doctors than those we can find on Sam's list. I recall Mike's goal is to provide each potential user of Afrezza with a few choices of prescribers on the docfinder. I would guess we would need to have at least 10-20 (or more for bigger states like CA, NY and TX) doctors for each state to achieve such a goal. |
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