Fact Based List:

Highest Average Cost per Unit: Medicare Part B

  1. Sipuleucel-t, immunotherapy that treats prostate cancer, $35,205
  2. Porfimer sodium, injection, treat tumors in the esophagus, $19,691.17
  3. Fluocinolone acetonide, implant to treat vision loss in diabetics, $18,543.62

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