Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a new tool designed to give providers and consumers insight into Medicare drug spending. The Medicare Drug Spending Dashboard, which at present only includes 2014 data, summarizes information on 80 drugs, 40 of which are covered under Medicare Part B and 40 of which are covered under Medicare Part D. Data on the dashboard (which is sortable) includes total drug spending, number of beneficiaries utilizing each drug, drug spending per user, beneficiary costs, and the annual change in average drug unit cost.
