Term: Pharmaceutical Users, Non-High Cost

Glossary Definition

Last Updated: 2008-03-11

Definition:

Individuals for whom annual expenditures for prescription medications do not fall in the top 5th percentile of annual prescription expenditures.

One of three mutually exclusive categories - Non-High Cost, Intermittent High-Cost and High-Cost Pharmaceutical Users.

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• Pharmaceutical User
• Pharmaceutical Users, High-Cost
• Pharmaceutical Users, Intermittent High-Cost