Excel · dataset · 2024
Healthcare Payments Data (HPD): Fee-For-Service Drug Costs
Listed in California Open Data
This data includes the top 25 list for costliest prescribed drugs, most frequently prescribed drugs and the prescribed drugs with the highest monthly median out-of-pocket cost for members.
Description
Each of these top 25 lists are broken out by payer type (i.e., All Payers, All Payers W/O Medi-Cal, Commercial, Medicare or Medi-Cal) and drug category (i.e., All, Brand, Generic, Biosimilar or Biologic). The includes National Drug Code (NDC), Year, Top 25 Ranking, National Drug Code, Drug Name, number of prescriptions, number of individuals, total costs, average cost per unit, average dispensed units per fill, drug unit of measure, monthly median out-of-pocket cost, 25th percentile for monthly out-of-pocket cost, 75th percentile for monthly out-of-pocket cost, and percent of monthly out-of-pocket cost with zero dollar amounts for each NDC in each top 25 list.
Links
Get the data
- data.chhs.ca.gov /dataset/f5179998-41d1-405c-999e-017d3902f3b5/resource/a5b31412… ↗
Healthcare Payments Data (HPD): Fee-For-Service Drug Costs Data (November 2025)
download · from data ca gov
- data.chhs.ca.gov /dataset/f5179998-41d1-405c-999e-017d3902f3b5/resource/49420949… ↗
Healthcare Payments Data (HPD): Fee-For-Service Drug Costs Data Dictionary
download · from data ca gov
- data.chhs.ca.gov /dataset/f5179998-41d1-405c-999e-017d3902f3b5/resource/ec8b4324… ↗
Healthcare Payments Data (HPD) Fee-For-Service Drug Costs Technical Note (November 2025)
download · from data ca gov
- data.chhs.ca.gov /dataset/f5179998-41d1-405c-999e-017d3902f3b5/resource/a7de9221… ↗
Healthcare Payments Data (HPD) Fee-For-Service Drug Costs by Commercial Plans Technical Note (Original Launch Version)
download · from data ca gov
- All resource data data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/f5179998-41d1-405c-999e-017d3902f3b5/resource/e038beb9… ↗
download · from data ca gov
Where it is published
- California Open Data dataset page data.ca.gov/dataset/healthcare-payments-data-hpd-fee-for-service-drug-costs ↗
landing page · from data ca gov
Documentation and papers
- Publisher page hcai.ca.gov/data-and-reports/cost-transparency/healthcare-payments ↗
documentation · from data ca gov
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.ca.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=9240af56-070a-4e6d-b13b-6cdc07a02… ↗
metadata API · from data ca gov
Topics
- Stated by source
- Health and Human Services
- From keywords
- Medicine & Health
Provenance · 1 source records, 9 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Open Data | 9240af56-070a-4e6d-b13b-6cdc07a02db4 | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:medicine-health | mapping · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[topic].ckan_group:data_ca_gov:health-human-services | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | /notes |
| license_text | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · data ca gov | connector:data_ca_gov@1.0.0 |