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Prescribed Drug Estimates: 2002
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Table 1.1 Top Prescribed Drugs by Total Expenditures, 2002
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Prescribed
drug name |
Total
expenditures
ranking |
Total
expenditures |
Total number of
persons with expenditures |
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Lipitor |
1 |
5,910,175,798 |
11,301,794 |
Zocor |
2 |
4,405,554,171 |
6,941,974 |
Prevacid |
3 |
2,964,258,322 |
5,294,860 |
Prilosec |
4 |
2,600,167,199 |
3,729,057 |
Celebrex |
5 |
2,375,845,406 |
6,715,554 |
Paxil |
6 |
2,242,121,858 |
4,969,058 |
Pravachol |
7 |
2,131,296,694 |
2,804,833 |
Zoloft |
8 |
2,101,947,914 |
5,030,240 |
Claritin |
9 |
2,069,379,771 |
8,989,933 |
Norvasc |
10 |
2,063,809,540 |
5,539,168 |
Standard Errors for Table 1.1: Top Prescribed Drugs by Total Expenditures, 2002
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Prescribed
drug name |
Total
expenditures |
Total number of
persons with expenditures |
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Lipitor |
312,050,328.14 |
473,718.40 |
Zocor |
400,257,828.83 |
350,714.64 |
Prevacid |
182,567,019.88 |
263,766.55 |
Prilosec |
192,522,494.32 |
230,631.43 |
Celebrex |
154,936,933.81 |
314,442.26 |
Paxil |
136,861,558.19 |
236,287.48 |
Pravachol |
187,196,053.54 |
199,211.11 |
Zoloft |
153,938,863.18 |
279,739.23 |
Claritin |
99,354,905.73 |
335,882.32 |
Norvasc |
131,463,356.83 |
298,045.51 |
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