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Annual expenditures on drugs in public plans exceeded $12 billion in 2018-19
OTTAWA, ON, Dec. 18, 2020 /CNW/ - The latest edition of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board s (PMPRB) CompassRx report reveals that prescription drug expenditures for the National Prescription Drug Utilization Information System (NPDUIS) public drug plans increased by 5.6% in 2018/19 to reach $12.1 billion, driven primarily by a considerable rise in the use of higher-cost drugs coupled with greater than average impacts from plan design changes and the use of generic drugs.
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CompassRx report monitors and analyzes the cost pressures driving changes in prescription drug expenditures in Canadian public drug plans. This sixth edition of
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