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Introduction Healthcare costs are rising, and patients need to manage their healthcare expenditures on medications (Bertsimas et al., 2008). Predicting medication cost in the future could help patients better manage patient-related healthcare expenditures (Zhao et al., 2001). To predict medication costs, one needs data concerning patients’ medicine-purchase patterns. Currently, there exist significant amounts of digital healthcare data that can provide helpful insights into healthcare expenditures, and these data could bring about positive changes in healthcare policymaking (Farley et al., 2006). Although there exist data, accessing these data is a major…

1. Introduction We are living in the big data era where all areas of science and industry generate massive amounts of data. This confronts us with unprecedented challenges regarding their analysis and interpretation. For this reason, there is an urgent need for novel machine learning and artificial intelligence methods that can help in utilizing these data. Deep learning (DL) is such a novel methodology currently receiving much attention (Hinton et al., 2006). DL describes a family of learning algorithms rather than a single method that can be used to learn…