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Prescribed Drug Estimates: 2001
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Table 1.1 Top Prescribed Drugs by Total Expenditures, 2001
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Prescribed
drug name |
Total expenditures
ranking |
Total
expenditures |
Total number of
persons with expenditures |
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Lipitor |
1 |
5,208,769,980.20 |
9,648,787.37 |
Prilosec |
2 |
3,452,393,289.78 |
5,136,849.76 |
Zocor |
3 |
3,047,429,066.35 |
6,068,308.29 |
Claritin |
4 |
2,577,298,073.26 |
12,289,536.60 |
Celebrex |
5 |
2,506,916,232.48 |
7,529,422.98 |
Prevacid |
6 |
2,270,213,028.83 |
4,764,037.82 |
Vioxx |
7 |
2,024,466,883.74 |
7,654,644.43 |
Premarin |
8 |
1,954,439,720.49 |
8,781,864.34 |
Zyprexa |
9 |
1,894,176,660.86 |
970,300.18 |
Norvasc |
10 |
1,863,243,071.27 |
5,306,931.50 |
Standard Errors for Table Table 1.1: Top Prescribed Drugs by Total Expenditures, 2001
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Prescribed
drug name |
Total
expenditures |
Total number of
persons with expenditures |
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Lipitor |
266,298,774.91 |
393,328.38 |
Prilosec |
250,996,775.81 |
279,302.26 |
Zocor |
210,415,866.92 |
290,562.90 |
Claritin |
136,311,920.51 |
506,213.41 |
Celebrex |
159,788,770.52 |
309,682.43 |
Prevacid |
180,389,926.14 |
240,371.65 |
Vioxx |
129,206,761.16 |
334,166.71 |
Premarin |
117,234,926.72 |
442,360.08 |
Zyprexa |
509,593,625.50 |
123,718.11 |
Norvasc |
122,079,628.49 |
253,123.42 |
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