The 10 costliest drugs
26th August 2015
By Meg Pigram
Statins retained their dominance of the list of most heavily prescribed medicines and are also the costliest drug class to Australia's PBS/RPBS program.
Rosuvastatin comes in top of the list costing the country more than $345 million 2014. Tiotropium Bromide sits in 10th place with just over $200 million.
Sitting in the middle is Atorvstatin with more than seven million scripts dispensed, costing more than $180,000,000, as revealed by data from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Division publication