Source: EMARKETER Forecast, August 2025 - August 2025
Note: total dollars spent on prescription medications by consumers
Additional Note: Copayments, cost-sharing, out-of-pocket payments, and non-insurance medication purchases are included. Prescription spending in hospitals is excluded.
Methodology: EMARKETER benchmarks its Medicare and Medicaid prescription drug spending figures against data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), for which the last full year measured was 2023.