Migraine Patient and Prescriber Audiences
In our Audience Quality Test, the migraine audience held 2.77× more high-fit households than the U.S. population, and 2.03× more qualified households. Brands can reach patients and the prescribers who treat them, with results reported every week. At $1.50 to $3.00 CPM, these audiences are priced at approximately 50% or less of the market rate.
Qualified audience
Every household and prescriber is scored 0 to 100 for fit to this condition. You buy only the tiers that qualify.
$1.50 to $3.00 CPM
Priced at approximately 50% or less of the market rate for pharma audiences.
Weekly measurement
Qualified reach, lift against the national baseline, and reach by state, reported every week.
Patients · DTC validated
- Households in test audience
- 3.3M
- High-fit people, national (score 72+)
- 18.0M
- Qualified people, national (score 66+)
- 61.8M
- Digitally active, qualified
- 14.0M
Share of households clearing the high-fit bar (score 72+). Qualified tier (score 66+): 49.9% in the test audience vs 24.6% nationally.
Prescribers · HCP active Type 1 NPIs
| Specialty | NPIs | At home |
|---|---|---|
| Treating | 26,348 | 15,919 |
| Neurology | 26,348 | 15,919 |
| Referring | 705,983 | 426,518 |
| Family & internal medicine | 327,135 | 200,836 |
| Primary care nurse practitioners | 378,848 | 225,682 |
| Total prescribers | 732,331 | 442,437 |
Counted by primary NUCC taxonomy in the CMS NPPES registry (September 2026). "At home" means matched to a home address in Semcasting's NPI file, for reach on CTV, streaming and display. Referring counts exclude doctors already counted as treating.
Where qualified patients concentrate top states by share
- District of Columbia
- Massachusetts
- Connecticut
- New Jersey
- New York
- California
Common questions
How many prescribers treat migraine?
26,348 active Type 1 NPIs in the treating specialties (neurology), 15,919 of them matched to a home address for CTV, streaming and display. Another 705,983 referring prescribers are counted separately. Counts come from the CMS NPPES registry, September 2026.
How was the migraine patient audience validated?
In Semcasting's Audience Quality Test, the migraine audience held 2.77x more high-fit households than the U.S. population (score 72 or higher) and 2.03x more qualified households (score 66 or higher). During a campaign the same comparison runs every week on the households actually reached.
Does the migraine audience use diagnosis, claims or prescription data?
No. Patient audiences are built from peer-reviewed, population-level public health reporting and population surveys, scored against Semcasting's national adult file. No diagnosis records, claims, prescriptions or PHI are used, and the score says nothing about any one person's health.
Evidence base primary sources for migraine
- Disease associationAmerican Migraine Foundation
- Population surveyCDC National Health Interview Survey
- Federal public healthNIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
How the audience is built
Patient counts for migraine come from physician-reported registries, diagnostic population surveys, and federal (CDC, CMS, NIH) and disease-association reporting, listed above. Each of 251.7M U.S. adult records is scored 0 to 100 for fit to those published patient profiles by age, gender and income. No published geographic breakdown meets our standard for this condition, so it is scored on demographic fit alone. Qualified means a score of 66 or higher. High-fit means 72 or higher.
How quality is confirmed
Audience quality has historically been confirmed through holdout sampling: a delivered audience is compared with the full national panel at the same fixed score cutoffs, and the difference is reported as lift. During a campaign, the same comparison runs every week on the households actually reached.
What it is not
Qualified audiences are not built from modeled claims data extrapolated from a few locations. They come from peer-reviewed, population-level public health reporting on patient profiles and population surveys. No diagnosis records, claims, prescriptions or PHI are used, and the score says nothing about any one person's health.