CMS Medicare & Medicaid Drug Spending Intelligence — Part D, Part B & Medicaid

The CMS Drug Spending datasets are the definitive official source

for understanding how much the United States government spends on

prescription drugs — broken down by drug, manufacturer, program,

and year. Published annually by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid

Services, these datasets cover Medicare Part D, Medicare Part B,

and Medicaid drug spending with granular metrics on total spending,

dosage units, claims volume, beneficiary counts, average cost per

claim, and year-over-year price change — for every drug in each

program.

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This listing by The Data Developers delivers four fully structured

CMS drug spending tables covering 2019–2023 — query-ready directly

in your Snowflake environment.

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SCALE & COVERAGE:

- 14,309 Medicare Part D drug records (2019–2023)

- 16,938 Medicaid drug records (2019–2023)

- 734 Medicare Part B HCPCS drug codes (2019–2023)

- 824 Part B discarded drug unit records

- 5 years of annual spending trends per drug

- Brand name and manufacturer-level granularity

- Average spending per dosage unit with CAGR

- Year-over-year price change metrics

- Outlier flags for high-cost drugs

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WHAT YOU CAN DO IN ONE QUERY:

- Track 5-year drug price trends across Medicare and Medicaid

- Compare Part D vs Medicaid spending for the same drug

- Identify drugs with the highest year-over-year cost growth

- Calculate CAGR of drug spending per dosage unit 2019–2023

- Flag outlier drugs with anomalous spending patterns

- Analyze manufacturer-level spending concentration

- Identify drugs with highest discard/waste rates under Part B

- Compare brand vs generic spending shifts over time

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WHO USES THIS DATA:

- Market access and payer strategy teams

- Health economics and outcomes research teams

- Pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement analysts

- Government affairs teams monitoring CMS drug policy

- Formulary management teams at health plans

- Investment analysts modeling drug revenue trajectories

- Life sciences consultants delivering pricing intelligence

- Academic researchers studying drug spending trends

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WHY THIS LISTING:

CMS drug spending data is the only official government source

for Medicare and Medicaid drug expenditure at the drug and

manufacturer level. This listing eliminates the need to download,

parse, and maintain raw CMS CSV files — delivering clean,

structured, multi-year spending intelligence directly in

Snowflake for immediate SQL analysis alongside your own

internal pricing, contracting, and formulary data.