CMS Drug Spending Information Products Fact Sheet

The fact sheet was released on May 15, 2018, by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The fact sheet provides information about drug spending in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. CMS is releasing updated versions of the Drug Spending Dashboards and the annual update to the Part D Prescriber Public Use File. These tools and resources—which provide data through 2016—focus on giving consumers, researchers, and other stakeholders across the health care system the information they need to understand drug prescribing in CMS programs, with a particular focus on spending . . .