Fig. 1
From: Visualizing nationwide variation in medicare Part D prescribing patterns
Overall features of 2013 Medicare Part D prescribing patterns data set. a. Distribution of percentage of providers prescribing each of 2892 unique drugs, sorted by percentage of providers prescribing. b. Same as A except for 197 unique drug classes. c. Distribution of number of claims for each of 2892 unique drugs, sorted by number of claims. Note that the unique drug order is not necessarily the same as in a. d. Same as b except for 197 unique drug classes. e. Distribution of drug prescription diversity across all providers sorted by number of unique claims. Numbers of providers prescribing more than 100 and 300 unique drugs are annotated on plot. f. Distribution of number of claims across all providers sorted by claims per provider. Number of providers making more than 10,000 and 25,000 claims are annotated on plot. G = Gini index