Fact Based List:

Highest Average Cost per Unit: Medicare Part D (Drugs Patients Administer Themselves)

  1. Eyelea, treats age-related macular degeneration, $35,457
  2. Lucentis, also treats macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy, $35,331
  3. Gattex, treats short bowel syndrome, $24,311

Source: CMS via STAT
Source URL: https://www.statnews.com/2016/12/08/drugs-cost-taxpayers/