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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st245/stat245.shtml
May 01, 2009 - During 2006, of persons with at least one prescribed drug purchase, persons under age 65 with public … e.g., all drugs with the same unique active ingredient were considered one unique drug. … e.g., all drugs with the same unique active ingredient were considered one unique drug. … Average number of prescription drug purchases for the population with a prescribed drug purchase by age … Average number of prescription drug purchases for the population with a prescribed drug purchase by sex
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st245/stat245.pdf
May 01, 2009 - Drug mentions were
grouped according to their unique active ingredient or unique
active ingredients … , e.g., all drugs with the same unique active
ingredient were considered one unique drug. … e.g., all
drugs with the same unique active ingredient were considered one unique drug. … Average number of prescription
drug purchases for the population with a
prescribed drug purchase by … Average number of prescription
drug purchases for the population with a
prescribed drug purchase by
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st245/draft/stat245.shtml
May 01, 2009 - During 2006, of persons with at least one prescribed drug purchase, persons under age 65 with public … e.g., all drugs with the same unique active ingredient were considered one unique drug. … e.g., all drugs with the same unique active ingredient were considered one unique drug. … Average number of prescription drug purchases for the population with a prescribed drug purchase by age … Average number of prescription drug purchases for the population with a prescribed drug purchase by sex
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st180/stat180.pdf
July 01, 2007 - Rank Prescribed
medicine
name
Total
dollars
(in billions)
Average
total
payment
per drug … purchase
Average
out-of-
pocket
payment
per drug
purchase
1 Singulair $.68 $86.45 $28.52 … The average payment per drug purchase was higher for Strattera than
for Singulair. … The lowest total average payment per drug
purchase was for Zoloft ($88.49). … Expenditure rankings are based on drug name.
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st180/stat180.shtml
July 01, 2007 - Zyrtec had the lowest average total payment per drug purchase ($61.29) as compared with the other drugs … The average payment per drug purchase was higher for Strattera than for Singulair. … The lowest total average payment per drug purchase was for Zoloft ($88.49). … Plavix, an antiplatelet drug, ranked third at $1.73 billion, and Norvasc, a calcium channel blocker, … Expenditure rankings are based on drug name.
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st180/draft/stat180.shtml
July 01, 2007 - Zyrtec had the lowest average total payment per drug purchase ($61.29) as compared with the other drugs … The average payment per drug purchase was higher for Strattera than for Singulair. … The lowest total average payment per drug purchase was for Zoloft ($88.49). … Plavix, an antiplatelet drug, ranked third at $1.73 billion, and Norvasc, a calcium channel blocker, … Expenditure rankings are based on drug name.
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st158/sb158.xml
January 01, 2007 - STATISTICAL BRIEF #158
January 2007
Prescription Drug Expenditures in the 10 Largest States for … The percentage of persons under age 65 with a prescription drug expenditure in 2004 was lower than the … The average expenditure per person under age 65 with a prescription drug expenditure was lower than the … The percentage of prescription drug expenditures paid out of pocket by persons under age 65 was lower … Prescription Drug Expenditures in the 10 Largest States for Persons under Age 65, 2004.
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meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/Pub_ProdResults_Details.jsp?pt=Statistical+Brief&opt=2&id=1249
May 07, 2019 - Publication Details
Title:
Trends in Prescribed Medication Expenditures by Age and Type of Prescription Drug … Data on trends in person level prescribed medication expenditures by age and prescription drug coverage … out-of-pocket expenditures, and average total and out-of-pocket expenditures by age and type of prescription drug … MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Source:
Web Only
MEPS Topics:
Prescribed Drug
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st148/stat148.shtml
November 01, 2006 - population age 18 and older (that is the 1 percent of the population with the highest prescription drug … In 2003, a higher proportion of adult Medicare beneficiaries in the top 10 percent of the prescribed drug … The top 1 percent (that is, the 1 percent of the population with the highest prescription drug spending … ) accounted for approximately 10 percent (9.8 percent) of annual prescription drug expenditures by the … beneficiaries (26.2 percent), and the top 10 percent accounted for two-fifths of total drug spending
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st148/draft/stat148.shtml
November 01, 2006 - population age 18 and older (that is the 1 percent of the population with the highest prescription drug … In 2003, a higher proportion of adult Medicare beneficiaries in the top 10 percent of the prescribed drug … The top 1 percent (that is, the 1 percent of the population with the highest prescription drug spending … ) accounted for approximately 10 percent (9.8 percent) of annual prescription drug expenditures by the … beneficiaries (26.2 percent), and the top 10 percent accounted for two-fifths of total drug spending
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st180/sb180.xml
July 01, 2007 -
Zyrtec had the lowest average total payment per drug purchase ($61.29) as compared with the … The average payment per drug purchase was higher for Strattera than for Singulair. … The lowest total average payment per drug purchase was for Zoloft ($88.49). … Plavix, an antiplatelet drug, ranked third at $1.73 billion, and Norvasc, a calcium channel blocker, …
Expenditure rankings are based on drug name.
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st107/sb107.xml
December 01, 2005 - STATISTICAL BRIEF #107
December 2005
Prescription Drug Expenditures in the 10 Largest States for … The percentage of persons under age 65 with a prescription drug expenditure in 2003 was lower than the … The percentage of prescription drug expenditures paid out-of-pocket by persons under age 65 in Texas … The percentage of prescription drug expenditures for persons under age 65 paid by Medicaid in New York … Prescription Drug Expenditures in the 10 Largest States for Persons under Age 65, 2003.
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st148/stat148.pdf
November 01, 2006 - beneficiaries in the top 10 percent (the 10 percent of the population
with the highest prescription drug … with those in the lower
50 percent (the 50 percent of the population with the lowest pre-
scription drug … ) accounted for approximately 10 percent (9.8 percent) of
annual prescription drug expenditures by the … beneficiaries (26.2
percent), and the top 10 percent accounted for two-fifths of total
drug spending … beneficiaries in fair or
ealth accounted for a
r proportion in the top 10
nt of the prescribed drug
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st43/sb43.xml
July 01, 2004 - purchased to treat the top five household-reported conditions as ranked by total annual prescribed drug … Cholesterol-related prescription drug purchases rose from $0.2 billion (in 2001 dollars) in 1987 to $8 … prescription medicine expenditure per person for those reporting purchasing a cholesterol-reducing drug … The following three household-reported conditions related to a prescribed drug purchase ranked among … Cholesterol-related prescription drug purchases were markedly higher in 2001 than in 1987--$8 billion
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meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/Pub_ProdResults_Details.jsp?pt=Statistical+Brief&opt=2&id=899
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Prescription Drug … presents the number of persons who reported having Medicare as well as total outpatient prescribed drug … The Brief also compares the proportion of the Medicare population that reported at least one drug purchase … and the proportion that had at least one Medicare payment for a prescribed drug. … Moreover, the Brief compares the proportion of 2005 and 2006 total prescribed drug expenditures by source
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st363/stat363.pdf
March 01, 2012 - Prescription drug therapeutic classes
are defined according to the Multum Lexicon therapeutic classification … all sources (e.g., out of pocket, private, and public insurance sources)
for outpatient prescription drug … $58.5 billion and accounted for almost 68 percent (67.6) of the $86.5
billion in total prescription drug … ● Expenses for metabolic
agents accounted for nearly
one-fourth of total
prescription drug expenses … for cardiovascular
agents.
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Among Medicare beneficiaries age 65 and older with a prescribed drug
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st186/stat186.pdf
September 01, 2007 - Rank
Prescribed
medicine
name
Total
dollars
(in billions)
Average
price per
drug … purchase
Average out-
of-pocket
payment per
drug purchase
1 Lipitor $2.61 $106.35 $56.76 … Plavix, an antiplatelet drug ranked third at $1.02 billion, and Norvasc, a calcium channel
blocker, … purchase
Average out-
of-pocket
payment per
drug purchase
1 Lipitor $1.10 $114.50 $43.17 … Expenditure rankings
Expenditure rankings are based on drug name.
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st288/sb288.xml
July 01, 2010 - STATISTICAL BRIEF #288
July 2010
Average Outpatient Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Costs for the … The third top prescription drug was Plavix, an antiplatelet drug; the fourth, Nexium, is used to reduce …
Prescription drug expenditure rankings
The 2005 prescription drug purchases for … persons age 65 and over were ranked by total expenditure based on the National Drug Code/Drug Name combination … Trends in Outpatient Prescription Drug Utilization and Expenditures: 1997 and 2004.
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st199/stat199.shtml
February 01, 2008 - Approximately three-quarters of Medicare beneficiaries age 65 and older with a prescribed drug expense … In 2005, cardiovascular agents accounted for nearly a quarter (23.6 percent) of prescription drug spending … The average drug expense per prescription for gastrointestinal agents ($96.94) and metabolic agents ( … expenses the top five therapeutic classes represented, the percentage of those with a prescribed drug … Percentage of total prescribed drug expenses by the Medicare population age 65 and older that the top
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st199/draft/stat199.shtml
February 01, 2008 - Approximately three-quarters of Medicare beneficiaries age 65 and older with a prescribed drug expense … In 2005, cardiovascular agents accounted for nearly a quarter (23.6 percent) of prescription drug spending … The average drug expense per prescription for gastrointestinal agents ($96.94) and metabolic agents ( … expenses the top five therapeutic classes represented, the percentage of those with a prescribed drug … Percentage of total prescribed drug expenses by the Medicare population age 65 and older that the top