Prescription counts are adjusted for prescription length and re-aggregated. Includes prescriptions and insulins dispensed through chain and independent pharmacies, food store pharmacies, mail service pharmacies, and
long-term care facilities.
* Retail channels.
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Channel distribution of U.S. dispensed prescriptions 2018-2020
This statistic shows the channel distribution by the number of dispensed prescriptions in the U.S. from 2018 to 2020. In 2020, some 3.49 billion prescriptions in the United States were distributed over a chain/mass retail channel. In total, that year there were about 6.32 billion prescriptions dispensed in the United States.
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