Differences in the cost of antidepressants across state medicaid programs

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Medicaid 100%
• Antidepressive Agents 81%
• Prescriptions 60%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 56%
• Cost Control 33%
• Sunlight 21%
• Depression 17%
• Pharmaceutical Preparations 14%
• Drug Utilization Review 14%
• Prior Authorization 13%
• Cost Sharing 13%
• Generic Drugs 12%
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S.) 11%
• Urbanization 11%
• Weather 11%
• Drug Costs 10%
• Tricyclic Antidepressive Agents 10%
• Population 10%
• Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors 9%
• Censuses 9%
• Patient Education 9%
• Administrative Personnel 9%
• Health Expenditures 9%
• Causality 8%
• Mental Disorders 7%
• Mental Health 7%
• Direction compound 6%
• Observation 6%
• Physicians 5%
• Therapeutics 1%

Social Sciences

• medication 77%
• costs 50%
• drug 45%
• cost containment 43%
• containment policy 36%
• drug list 19%
• cost sharing 15%
• drug policy 13%
• authorization 11%
• research policy 11%
• urbanization 10%
• expenditures 9%
• rural area 9%
• census 9%
• utilization 9%
• physician 8%
• mental health 7%
• experience 3%
• education 3%