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Commercial, Insurance & Employer Prescription Drug Spending
Per Year, per Person
Source: EMARKETER Forecast, August 2025 - January 2026
Note: total dollars spent on prescription medications by employer-sponsored insurance and direct-purchase health plans
Additional Note: 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.