Abstract
As prescription drug expenditures consume an increasingly larger portion of Medicaid budgets, states are anxious to control drug costs without endangering enrollees' health. In this report, we analyzed recent trends in Medicaid prescription drug expenditures by therapeutic classes and subclasses. Identifying the fastest growing categories of drugs, where drugs are grouped into clinically relevant classes and subclasses, can help policymakers decide where to focus their cost containment efforts. We used data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey linked to a prescription drug therapeutic classification system, to examine trends between 1996/1997 and 2001/2002 in utilization and expenditures for the noninstitutionalized Medicaid population. We separated aggregate trends into changes in population with use and changes in expenditures per user, and percent generic. We also highlighted differences within the Medicaid population, including children, adults, disabled, and elderly. We found rapid growth in expenditures for antidepressants, antipsychotics, antihyperlipidemics, antidiabetic agents, antihistamines, COX-2 inhibitors, and proton pump inhibitors and found evidence supporting the rapid take-up of new drugs. In some cases t...Continue Reading
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