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Prescribed Drug Estimates: 2012


Table 1.1 Top Prescribed Drugs by Total Expenditures, 2012

Prescribed drug Total
expenditures
ranking
Total expenditures Total number
of persons with
expenditures
Atorvastatin 1 6,736,105,464 10,336,164
Advair 2 6,305,608,927 3,959,104
Crestor 3 5,714,387,198 4,825,891
Nexium 4 5,338,304,815 3,795,718
Clopidogrel 5 5,109,432,635 4,788,412
Lantus 6 5,096,856,707 3,238,183
Abilify 7 4,853,367,200 1,126,503
Cymbalta 8 4,534,301,157 2,747,589
Diovan 9 4,359,059,200 3,889,531
Humira 10 4,064,982,760 ##
Singulair 11 3,688,967,712 4,175,589
Novolin 12 3,431,371,884 2,742,644
Spiriva 13 3,371,314,036 1,983,457
Avonex 14 3,324,895,945* ##
Novolog 15 3,114,958,486 1,711,749
Enbrel 16 -- ##
Simvastatin 17 2,636,176,061 18,384,491
Humalog 18 2,590,441,558 1,102,892
Atripla 19 2,590,427,836 ##
Seroquel 20 2,506,232,210 1,156,749
Januvia 21 2,467,107,224 1,594,507
Omeprazole 22 2,451,740,994 11,574,702
Lyrica 23 2,179,997,485 1,582,189
Gabapentin 24 2,059,955,235 6,006,011
Actos 25 2,048,173,657 1,103,328


Standard Errors for Table 1.1: Top Prescribed Drugs by Total Expenditures, 2012

Prescribed drug Total expenditures Total number
of persons with
expenditures
Atorvastatin 393,594,223 465,991
Advair 719,670,505 278,478
Crestor 474,509,297 343,811
Nexium 502,276,183 317,481
Clopidogrel 430,599,033 316,571
Lantus 528,485,396 241,065
Abilify 873,039,179 144,495
Cymbalta 488,298,921 225,804
Diovan 446,876,577 302,067
Humira 1,076,895,882 ##
Singulair 372,678,768 326,480
Novolin 477,766,355 228,501
Spiriva 416,170,974 167,999
Avonex 1,214,168,545* ##
Novolog 401,767,616 168,869
Enbrel -- ##
Simvastatin 166,623,363 719,149
Humalog 547,389,214 134,376
Atripla 712,711,610 ##
Seroquel 405,683,260 126,007
Januvia 345,147,528 170,623
Omeprazole 219,041,877 540,962
Lyrica 293,683,304 167,778
Gabapentin 205,443,263 334,752
Actos 301,141,469 142,270

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

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