VARIVAX: cost and payments to doctors
What Medicare Part D paid pharmacies for VARIVAX, and the payments that named it as the associated drug or biological under the Sunshine Act for program years 2019–2025.
Part D cost for VARIVAX formulations
Medicare reports VARIVAX under its specific formulations, which are priced separately.
- varivax vaccine$167per 30-day fill · 1,717 claims · Varicella Vaccine Live/Pf
Paid to pharmacies by Part D plans and patients — not your cost, and not paid to the prescriber. Is this wrong?
Was your doctor paid by Merck?
Merck reported the most payments naming VARIVAX. Search your clinician to see whether they are among them — and what else they were paid for.
Finding a payment is not a finding of wrongdoing — most reported payments are a meal during a presentation. What matters is the kind, the size, and how it compares with their peers, which is what the profile shows.
- Total reported
- $137K
- Providers
- 4,043
- Transactions
- 5,130
- Average per transaction
- $27
The per-transaction average — $27 — is the number that tells you what kind of spending this is. A few dollars means meals at product presentations, reported by the thousand. Hundreds or thousands means consulting, speaking or royalty arrangements with a much smaller group of physicians. Across all 4,043 providers the average total is $34, but that average hides a very steep distribution.
Companies reporting these payments
| Company | Total reported | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | $136,561 | 100.0% |
Other products from Merck
The company that reported the most payments naming VARIVAX also reports against these.