Monday, May 18, 2015

According to a recent analysis

Medicare and its beneficiaries spent $103 billion on prescription drugs in 2013; the drug with the greatest total cost was the brand drug Nexium, at $2.5 billion for 1.5 million Medicare patients, who filled 8 million prescriptions and refills.

Source: "Medicare Itemizes Its $103 Billion Drug Bill," Kaiser Health News, April 30, 2015, http://kaiserhealthnews.org/news/medicare-itemizes-its-103-billion-drug-bill/

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