Corticosteroid

Established Pharmacologic Class (EPC) Comparison, United States, 2023

Total Prescriptions in (2023)

Drug Name	Total Prescriptions (2023)	Percent Share
Fluticasone	21,041,608	21.4%
Prednisone	15,794,244	16.1%
Fluticasone; Salmeterol	10,648,080	10.9%
Budesonide; Formoterol	9,346,242	9.5%
Triamcinolone	6,476,980	6.6%
Fluticasone; Umeclidinium; Vilanterol	5,533,175	5.6%
Clobetasol	4,643,352	4.7%
Methylprednisolone	4,190,064	4.3%
Fluticasone; Vilanterol	4,032,316	4.1%
Prednisolone	3,839,257	3.9%
Budesonide	3,366,338	3.4%
Hydrocortisone	2,711,653	2.8%
Betamethasone; Clotrimazole	1,470,861	1.5%
Dexamethasone	1,251,534	1.3%
Dexamethasone; Neomycin; Polymyxin B	1,049,128	1.1%
Mometasone	865,193	0.9%
Betamethasone	760,521	0.8%
Ciprofloxacin; Dexamethasone	723,486	0.7%
Mometasone; Olopatadine	169,856	0.2%
Azelastine; Fluticasone	165,218	0.2%
Beclomethasone	51,207	0.1%

Total Prescriptions by Drug Over Time

Drug Class Prescribing Trends Over Time

Prescription data source: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) 2014-2023. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Rockville, MD. ClinCalc DrugStats Database version 2025.08. Read more about the ClinCalc DrugStats database.

All ClinCalc DrugStats figures and graphs on this page are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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