Fact Based List:

Highest Total Spending: Medicare Part D (Drugs Patients Administer Themselves)

  1. Harvoni, hepatitis C, $7 billion
  2. Lantus/Lantus SoloSTAR, insulin injection, $4.3 billi
  3. Crestor, lowers cholesterol, $2.8 billion

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