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6 th Annual Primary Care Spring Conference Thursday, April 12, 2012 Average Annual % Change in Retail Prices for Widely Used Brand Name Prescription Medications AARP Rx Price Watch Report 8-2010 http://www.aarp.org/ppi 7 Generic Medication Use • In 2010 ~78% of all medications dispensed in the US were for generic medications • Recent Harris Poll (1/26/09) – Found that between Oct 2006 and Dec 2008 the proportion of adults who would choose generic drugs over branded drugs increased from 68% to 81% Wayne Weart, Pharm D Cost Effective Rx
6 th Annual Primary Care Spring Conference Thursday, April 12, 2012 2010 Top 200 Generic Drugs by Total Prescriptions Rank Drug Total Rxs % Change from 2009 • 1 Hydrocodone/APAP 122,806,850 2.1% • 2 Lisinopril 76,901,813 4.3% • 3 Simvastatin 76,771,821 4.9% • 4 Levothyroxine 68,222,152 8.2% • 5 Amoxicillin 51,083,822 -0.6% • 6 Amlodipine besylate 50,186,652 11.7% • 7 Azithromycin 48,756,188 -2.1% • 8 Alprazolam 46,201,182 3.9% • 9 Hydrochlorothiazide 45,838,017 -0.8% • 10 Omeprazole 44,795,175 15.4% – Drug Topics 2011 www.drugtopics.com 2010 Top 200 Generic Drugs by Total Prescriptions Rank Drug Total Rxs % Change from 2009 11 Metformin 41,932,689 4.7% • 12 Furosemide oral 36,583,895 -0.1% • 13 Metoprolol tartrate 34,707,807 -0.5% • 14 Atenolol 33,839,806 -11.0% • 15 Sertraline 33,409,838 8.9% • 16 Metoprolol succinate 32,224,000 12.0% • 17 Zolpidem tartrate 29,719,569 -2.8% • 18 Oxycodone/APAP 28,705,243 6.8% • 19 Citalopram HBR 27,993,635 9.4% • 20 Gabapentin 26,865,557 14.0% – Drug Topics 2011 www.drugtopics.com 10 Wayne Weart, Pharm D Cost Effective Rx
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