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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today updated its Medicare and Medicaid drug spending  with 2017 data. The dashboards show trends in average spending per dosage unit for prescription drugs paid under Medicare Parts B and D and Medicaid, drugs with limited to no competition, and the list price of different medications for a given condition. “The dashboards pinpoint the sources of rising prescription drug prices to help guide our continued work to address this problem,” CMS Administrator Seema Verma. “From 2013-2017, prescription drug spending grew at an average annual rate of 10.6 percent in Medicare Part D, 10.0 percent in Part B, and 14.8 percent in Medicaid – this is one of our fastest areas of growth.” In 2017, total gross spending on prescription drugs was $154.9 billion in Medicare Part D, $30.4 billion in Part B, and $67.6 billion in Medicaid.