Not surprisingly, many of the drugs topping the list carried high price tags. Between January 2014 and June 2015, the costliest medications were the Abilify antipsychotic pill; the Sovaldi and Harvoni hepatitis C treatments; the Vyvanse attention deficit medicine; and the Truvada HIV drug, according to a new analysis by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
However, the analysis, which examined list prices before manufacturer rebates, noted that 45 of the 50 costliest drugs were considered high-cost items partly because they were frequently prescribed. And 28 of those medicines were, in fact, frequently prescribed, although they were not as expensive on a per-prescription basis. These included the Vyvanse treatment for attention deficit disorder.
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