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. 2004 Fall;26(1):57–73.

Figure 11. Medicaid Central Nervous System (CNS) Prescriptions Per Recipient, for 29 SMRF States Within U.S. Census Regions: 1998.

Figure 11

Prescriptions Per Recipient for CNS Agents Showed Marked Variation Across Regions

  • The Northeast region had the highest number of dispensed prescriptions per recipient for CNS agents and the South had the lowest. By State, New Jersey had the highest prescriptions per recipient for CNS agents at 14 prescriptions per recipient followed by New Hampshire at 13 prescriptions per recipient. Kansas had the lowest number of dispensed prescriptions per recipient for CNS agents at 4 prescriptions per recipient.
  • By drug group (data not shown), anti-anxiety agents had the highest number of dispensed prescriptions per recipient in Kentucky; anti-depressants had the highest prescriptions per recipient in Pennsylvania; anti-psychotics had the highest prescriptions per recipient in New Hampshire; and hypnotics had the highest prescriptions per recipient in Kentucky.