Insulin Cost and Pricing Trends

Diabetes is now the most expensive chronic condition in the United States.[1] One in every four U.S. health care dollars is spent on someone with diabetes, and one in seven dollars is spent directly on diabetes-related expenses. [2] The economic cost of diabetes in the United States totaled $327 billion in 2017, including $237 billion for direct medical costs and $90 billion in lost productivity.[3] The 2017 total represents an average annual increase of 6 percent from the 2012 estimated cost of $245 billion.[4]