What should this prescription cost?
At the pharmacy counter and the price looks wrong? Look up what pharmacies pay for your medicine and what one cash pharmacy charges for it. Free, no sign-up, about a minute.
What this prescription costs
What you can do
- Ask the pharmacist: "What is the cash price without insurance?" Compare it to your copay. Pick the lower one.
- Ask if a 90-day fill costs less.
- Check one or two other pharmacies, including a mail-order cash pharmacy.
- Ask your doctor if a generic or a different strength would work for you.
- Call your plan (the number is on your card) and ask why your price is what it is.
Do not stop or skip a medicine because of the price. Talk to your pharmacist or doctor first.
What these numbers cannot tell you
- Brand-name drugs often have rebates the survey does not see, so the survey number says less for brands.
- Your insurance copay can be lower than any cash price. Compare both.
- NADAC is a national average. It is not what your pharmacy paid.
- Some drugs are not in the survey. If yours is missing, we cannot show a number.
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Where the numbers come from
We read each of these on November 13, 2026. Every fact on this page traces to one of them. Our research log, with what each source says and the date we read it, is public: research-log.txt.
NADAC means National Average Drug Acquisition Cost. CMS, the federal agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid, publishes it. It is the average price retail pharmacies pay to buy a drug, from a survey of their purchase prices, and the prices are updated every week. This page reads the 2026 NADAC file on data.medicaid.gov.
Cost Plus Drugs (the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company) is one online pharmacy that lists its cash prices. Its FAQ says its prices include a 15% markup, and standard shipping is about $5 on top. We show its listed price from its public price service.
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Who made this, and how to correct it
This is general information, not medical or legal advice. Your pharmacist, your doctor and your plan's own papers come first.
Made by Known Quantity LLC, a small Rhode Island company, as free public-interest work. We have no affiliation with any pharmacy (including Cost Plus Drugs), insurer, pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), drug maker or government agency, and no one paid for this page.
If we got something wrong, email [email protected] with the source and we will fix it.
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