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Prescribed Drug Estimates: 2006

Table 1.1 Top Prescribed Drugs by Total Expenditures, 2006

Prescribed
drug

Total
expenditures
ranking

Total
expenditures

Total number
of persons
with expenditures


Lipitor 1 8,832,138,803 13,931,542
Coagulation Medicine 2 -- --
Advair 3 3,631,212,527 5,278,245
Zocor 4 3,492,099,862 5,615,302
Nexium 5 3,104,061,600 5,398,832
Toprol 6 3,027,180,887 11,082,052
Prevacid 7 3,023,360,046 4,731,974
Plavix 8 2,923,097,388 3,698,527
Lisinopril 9 2,897,320,533 11,007,926
Metformin 10 2,832,398,861 7,577,758
Singulair 11 2,803,318,795 6,269,936
Ascensia 12 2,680,407,910 9,616,056
Aranesp 13 -- --
Norvasc 14 2,481,518,324 5,487,342
Avandia 15 2,240,658,546 2,431,129
Actos 16 2,136,895,376 2,472,833
Zoloft 17 2,084,087,580 4,321,118
Fosamax 18 1,994,457,627 4,456,772
Diovan 19 1,980,374,446 4,373,262
Lexapro 20 1,966,648,066 4,767,920
Protonix 21 1,928,081,097 3,651,507
Atenolol 22 1,915,859,129 7,915,551
Simvastatin 23 1,825,489,092 4,401,884
Vytorin 24 1,714,084,999 3,393,974
Effexor 25 1,699,952,674 2,315,940

Standard Errors for Table 1.1: Top Prescribed Drugs by Total Expenditures, 2006

Prescribed
drug

Total
expenditures

Total number
of persons
with expenditures


Lipitor 457,591,886 631,564
Coagulation Medicine -- --
Advair 265,314,436 296,760
Zocor 267,821,144 316,750
Nexium 219,733,081 300,269
Toprol 172,029,527 464,307
Prevacid 218,942,298 299,067
Plavix 295,634,609 247,753
Lisinopril 179,972,959 493,253
Metformin 171,617,172 346,790
Singulair 221,630,878 343,639
Ascensia 175,019,310 377,278
Aranesp -- --
Norvasc 173,423,486 313,068
Avandia 257,220,099 193,044
Actos 218,824,805 193,308
Zoloft 169,950,839 262,595
Fosamax 142,551,133 232,134
Diovan 142,753,254 257,399
Lexapro 144,438,906 299,843
Protonix 178,861,723 240,670
Atenolol 124,291,631 376,066
Simvastatin 134,886,803 236,477
Vytorin 147,402,883 249,849
Effexor 183,156,774 182,098

-- Less than 100 sample cases.

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