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    Healthcare Payments Data (HPD): Fee-For-Service Drug Costs

    Metadata Updated: November 23, 2025

    This data includes the top 25 list for costliest prescribed drugs, most frequently prescribed drugs and the prescribed drugs with the highest monthly median out-of-pocket cost for members. Each of these top 25 lists are broken out by payer type (i.e., All Payers, All Payers W/O Medi-Cal, Commercial, Medicare or Medi-Cal) and drug category (i.e., All, Brand, Generic, Biosimilar or Biologic). The includes National Drug Code (NDC), Year, Top 25 Ranking, National Drug Code, Drug Name, number of prescriptions, number of individuals, total costs, average cost per unit, average dispensed units per fill, drug unit of measure, monthly median out-of-pocket cost, 25th percentile for monthly out-of-pocket cost, 75th percentile for monthly out-of-pocket cost, and percent of monthly out-of-pocket cost with zero dollar amounts for each NDC in each top 25 list.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 27, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date November 23, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from State of California

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 27, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date November 23, 2025
    Publisher Department of Health Care Access and Information
    Maintainer
    Identifier 9240af56-070a-4e6d-b13b-6cdc07a02db4
    Data First Published 2024-02-05T18:09:41.010933
    Data Last Modified 2025-11-19T18:15:10.165066
    Category Health and Human Services
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 7dd9042d-47ac-4e30-ad9b-a3f79eb6a048
    Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
    Harvest Source Title State of California
    License http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 6a3444b7c7699ecb239df5cff997a4bd7a4b55053d3e05955d6b8ff3bcaea475
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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