Connecting People With Data

Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated its drug spending dashboards with data for 2017. The dashboards focus on average spending per dosage unit for prescription drugs within CMS programs, and track the change in average spending per dosage unit over time. Information is presented in an interactive web-based tool, so researchers and consumers can easily sort the data to identify trends. For more information on today’s update, please review the CMS press release: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-updates-drug-dashboards-prescription-drug-pricing-and-spending-data To view the drug spending dashboards see: https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Information-on-Prescription-Drugs/index.html. All of the above data assets are also catalogued on Healthdata.gov:  http://www.healthdata.gov/dataset/search The Data Navigator development team welcomes your feedback. Write to us at DataNavigator@cms.hhs.gov.