Prescription Drug Plans
Interim Drug Plan Bidder Data Sets
These data sets are being used to meet industry's requests that
CMS share information from public data sets that could help potential
drug plan bidders to better understand or estimate the eligible
Medicare beneficiary population's utilization of prescription
drugs.
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FEHBP Drug Utilization Index
CY 2002 (Zipped Excel, 22 KB)
This Excel Workbook contains utilization indices by state for
three measures of annual per capita utilization: spending,
prescriptions filled and supply days. These are separately reported
for total sales, retail sales and mail order. Three years are
reported, each on a separate spreadsheet, 2000, 2001, 2002. Each
index is relative to the national mean for the measure. The data
are for federal retirees 65+, enrolled in the Federal Employee
Health Benefit national Blue Cross Blue Shield plan.
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Distributions of
prescription drug expenses based on the Medicare Current
Beneficiary Survey
Distributions of Medicare beneficiaries' prescription drug
expenses provide information for analyzing and projecting payments
under the new Medicare Part D drug benefit. The information
provided may give additional insights into the drug expenditure
patterns of Medicare beneficiaries. These distributions are
consistent with the Office of the Actuary's projections of the
cost of the drug benefit.
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Statistical
Compendium: Medicaid Pharmacy Benefit Use and Reimbursement in
1999
Provides detailed state-by-state and national data on the use of
and reimbursement for prescription drugs in Medicaid. The data show
use and reimbursement by beneficiary demographic characteristics
(age, sex, and race), basis of eligibility (children, adults,
disabled, and aged), and Medicare-Medicaid dual eligible status.
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MCBS Data - (Zipped Text file
3K) and (Zipped Word file
7K)
The MCBS data provided to help prepare MMA Title 1 bids are a
subset of the elements available in the 2001 MCBS Cost and Use
file. These elements include demographic characteristics such as
age and sex, insurance characteristics (including existence of
prescription drug coverage), summary Medicare Part A and Part B use
and expenditure, and annual prescription drug expenditure (with a
breakdown of this spending by various payer categories, including
consumer payments). Note that the full dataset is available to
researchers who enter into a data use agreement with the Agency.
Last Modified on Thursday, October 14, 2004
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