Volume 44
Medicaid Prescription Drug Use and Spending by Price Category, 2013 – 2016
The January edition tabulates the distribution of Medicaid pharmacy costs by unit price cohort. Explosive growth in the share of Medicaid prescriptions among drugs costing more than $1,000 per prescription (pre-rebate) continues to occur. These drugs now represent 40% of all Medicaid pre-rebate prescription drug expenditures.
- Keywords: Expenditures Medicaid Prescription Drugs