Drug Spending Moves Up for Diabetes, Down for Cholesterol

Report based on data from Medco on prescriptions filled over a 2 year period...BD 

In health spending, how many people are being treated for a disease can be a lot less important than how much it costs to treat each person. That’s what we took from this report out today from Medco, the pharmacy benefits manager.

Use of diabetes drugs increased only 2.3% last year, but spending rose 12%. The big driver was the introduction of new, expensive medicines that replace or are added to older, cheaper ones.

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