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    Prescription Drugs Introduced to Market

    Metadata Updated: May 14, 2024

    This dataset provides data for new prescription drugs introduced to market in California with a Wholesale Acquisition Cost (WAC) that exceeds the Medicare Part D specialty drug cost threshold. Prescription drug manufacturers submit information to HCAI within a specified time period after a drug is introduced to market. Key data elements include the National Drug Code (NDC) administered by the FDA, a narrative description of marketing and pricing plans, and WAC, among other information. Manufacturers may withhold information that is not in the public domain. Note that prescription drug manufacturers are able to submit new drug reports for a prior quarter at any time. Therefore, the data set may include additional new drug report(s) from previous quarter(s).

    There are two types of New Drug data sets: Monthly and Annual. The Monthly data sets include the data in completed reports submitted by manufacturers for calendar year 2024, as of May 3, 2024. The Annual data sets include data in completed reports submitted by manufacturers for the specified year. The data sets may include reports that do not meet the specified minimum thresholds for reporting.

    The program regulations are available here: https://hcai.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CTRx-Regulations-Text.pdf

    The data format and file specifications are available here: https://hcai.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Format-and-File-Specifications-version-2.0-ada.pdf

    DATA NOTES: Due to recent changes in Excel capabilities, it is not recommended that you save these files to .csv format. If you do, when importing back into Excel the leading zeros in the NDC number column will be dropped. If you need to save it into a different format other than .xlsx it must be .txt

    Access & Use Information

    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: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date August 12, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date May 14, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from State of California

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 12, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date May 14, 2024
    Publisher Department of Health Care Access and Information
    Maintainer
    Identifier da21088b-4037-4717-a748-dde840584af3
    Data First Published 2019-03-05T16:45:32.819450
    Data Last Modified 2024-05-03T16:59:26.072889
    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 a33d1930-3f15-440c-b10b-2e66c64a0af2
    Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
    Harvest Source Title State of California
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 5941f00ceca58945a500d2bf01e7b81aecee5ab0d46364cb1ff4f04c1fc1cc85
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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