Pharmacy Costs As A Percentage Of Total Medical Spend

If you look at AIS, they track total annual pharmacy costs for leading health plans.  I pulled a few payers out from the table in the July 22, 2011 Drug Benefit News here to share.  If you exclude two very clear outliers on the low end, they ranged from a low of 9.70% to a high of 21.86%.

Here’s a sample: