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Prescribed Drug Estimates: 2010


Table 1.1 Top Prescribed Drugs by Total Expenditures, 2010

Prescribed drug Total
expenditures
ranking
Total
expenditures
Total number
of persons
with expenditures
Lipitor 1 9,631,760,224 8,858,584
Plavix 2 6,749,282,629 4,973,938
Nexium 3 6,673,943,841 5,047,629
Advair 4 6,244,030,029 5,351,687
Copaxone 5 5,791,047,166* ##
Crestor 6 4,931,789,301 5,032,241
Singulair 7 4,406,128,074 5,667,813
Cymbalta 8 3,820,196,760 2,762,566
Diovan 9 3,443,097,972 4,595,224
Actos 10 3,298,488,419 2,226,860
Lantus 11 3,175,018,185 2,334,646
Abilify 12 3,072,635,204 1,040,335
Lexapro 13 3,024,863,194 3,962,352
Seroquel 14 2,605,182,917 1,222,066
Omeprazole 15 2,578,420,206 9,677,037
Simvastatin 16 2,517,814,879 17,854,594
Lyrica 17 2,419,452,728 1,603,750
Aricept 18 2,246,853,706 1,142,729
Novolog 19 2,064,156,100 1,307,968
Rebif 20 -- --
Atripla 21 2,016,913,738* ##
Zyprexa 22 1,974,628,675 ##
Oxycontin 23 1,939,344,524 ##
Spiriva 24 1,859,308,361 1,650,374
Novolin 25 1,842,202,689 2,412,291

Standard Errors for Table 1.1: Top Prescribed Drugs by Total Expenditures, 2010

Prescribed drug Total
expenditures
Total number
of persons
with expenditures
Lipitor 598,833,959 448,797
Plavix 561,539,801 328,287
Nexium 588,894,443 335,579
Advair 482,287,505 336,094
Copaxone 2,048,362,776* ##
Crestor 382,815,212 296,926
Singulair 326,014,005 372,318
Cymbalta 393,301,727 243,532
Diovan 314,001,594 312,324
Actos 333,200,201 197,857
Lantus 359,589,401 187,701
Abilify 513,494,825 146,548
Lexapro 308,869,887 346,673
Seroquel 549,255,997 136,395
Omeprazole 471,862,807 456,354
Simvastatin 154,032,349 669,650
Lyrica 356,786,217 171,998
Aricept 323,191,309 126,172
Novolog 324,872,507 140,459
Rebif -- --
Atripla 751,760,708* ##
Zyprexa 573,688,578 ##
Oxycontin 461,063,492 ##
Spiriva 265,732,210 189,737
Novolin 224,069,539 179,183

-- Less than 100 sample acquisitions.
## Less than 100 sample persons.
* Relative standard error equal to or greater than 30%.

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