title: Drug cost increases are generated by the 50 top selling pharmaceuticals.
abstract: Hospitals, integrated health care delivery networks (IDNs), managed care organizations, employers and the government are struggling with the soaring cost of prescription pharmaceuticals, and they will find that the 50 top selling prescription drugs are blowing their budgets.
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D016527:Drug Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000191:economics*; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D017721:Hospital Costs; D006801:Humans; D010351:Patient Discharge; D014481:United States