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Chart 1.9: Total Prescription Drug Spending, 1980-2021 

Chart 1.9: Total Prescription Drug Spending, 1980-2021

 

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Data released December 2022. National Health Expenditures by types of service and source of funds, CY 1960-2021.

Notes:

(1) CMS completed a benchmark revision in 2019, introducing changes in methods, definitions and source data that are retroactively applied to the entire time series. For more information on this revision, see  

(2) Total Prescription Drug Spending is expressed in the current year's dollar, 2021. 

 

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