diff --git a/litellm/router.py b/litellm/router.py
index 50db754b6..537c14ddc 100644
--- a/litellm/router.py
+++ b/litellm/router.py
@@ -5169,8 +5169,28 @@ class Router:
 
         if model not in self.model_names:
             # check if provider/ specific wildcard routing use pattern matching
-            _pattern_router_response = self.pattern_router.route(model)
+            custom_llm_provider: Optional[str] = None
+            try:
+                (
+                    _,
+                    custom_llm_provider,
+                    _,
+                    _,
+                ) = litellm.get_llm_provider(model=model)
+            except Exception:
+                # get_llm_provider raises exception when provider is unknown
+                pass
 
+            """
+            self.pattern_router.route(model):
+                does exact pattern matching. Example openai/gpt-3.5-turbo gets routed to pattern openai/*
+
+            self.pattern_router.route(f"{custom_llm_provider}/{model}"):
+                does pattern matching using litellm.get_llm_provider(), example claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620 gets routed to anthropic/* since 'claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620' is an Anthropic Model
+            """
+            _pattern_router_response = self.pattern_router.route(
+                model
+            ) or self.pattern_router.route(f"{custom_llm_provider}/{model}")
             if _pattern_router_response is not None:
                 provider_deployments = []
                 for deployment in _pattern_router_response:
diff --git a/tests/local_testing/test_router.py b/tests/local_testing/test_router.py
index 57ef196ff..42148d9ab 100644
--- a/tests/local_testing/test_router.py
+++ b/tests/local_testing/test_router.py
@@ -124,6 +124,11 @@ async def test_router_provider_wildcard_routing():
 
     print("response 3 = ", response3)
 
+    response4 = await router.acompletion(
+        model="claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620",
+        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hello"}],
+    )
+
 
 @pytest.mark.asyncio()
 async def test_router_provider_wildcard_routing_regex():