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Generic Drugs’ 10-Year Savings To U.S. Health System Top $1 Tril. For First Time, GPhA Finds

 
• By Gregory Twachtman

Generic Pharmaceutical Association, with research from IMS Health, says the savings to the U.S. health care system from using generic drugs were $1.07 trillion over the past 10 years, a figure the group believes should be taken into consideration when looking for solutions to the general fiscal crisis facing the U.S. The association is going to focus on improving generic utilization on state and local level.

Use of generic drugs has saved the U.S. health care system over $1 trillion in the past 10 years, the first time such a figure has been reached over a 10-year window, according to data in a report released by the Generic Pharmaceutical Association.

Prepared by IMS Health Inc., GPhA’s report says that from 2002 to 2011, generics saved $1.07 trillion in the...

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