FAQ: US Drug Cost Information

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Question: Where can I find information about the cost of US prescription and over-the-counter drugs?

Answer:

You can find costs for medicines, by state, at:

• Florida: Florida Prescription Drug Price
  State of Florida Office of the Attorney General and Agency for Health Care Administration
  "the 100 most commonly used prescription drugs in Florida."
  Search by county and city at http://myfloridarx.com/rx.nsf/finder
  Also in Spanish at http://myfloridarx.com/RX.nsf/pages/Introduction?Open&LN=SP
• Indiana: Indiana Prescription Price Finder
  Office of the Indiana Attorney General
  http://www.indianaconsumer.com/consumer_guide/price_finder.asp
  Search at http://atgindsha01.atg.in.gov/rxsearch/
  Search by drug name, city, county, and/or zip code
• Michigan: MI Prescription Drug Prices
  Michigan Department of Community Health
  http://www.michigandrugprices.com/9A0689B2-3B75-4F2B-8F6F-075AFEE38B21/Search.aspx
• Minnesota: Minnesota RxPrice Compare
  State of Minnesota
  http://www.state.mn.us/portal/mn/jsp/content.do?id=-536891618&agency=Rx
• Missouri: Missouri Rx Price Compare, State of Missouri
  Also in Spanish
  http://www.morxcompare.com/MoRxPriceCompare/default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
• New Hampshire: New Hampshire’s Medicine Cabinet, Drug Listing & Price Lookup
  State of New Hampshire
  Search by drug name, then by city
  http://www4.egov.nh.gov/Medicine-Cabinet/Drug_Listing.asp
• New Jersey: New Jersey Prescription Drug Price Registry
  "the 150 most-frequently prescribed prescription drugs"
  https://www6.state.nj.us/LPSCA_DRUG/search.jsp
• New York: NY Drug Prices, NY Department of Health
  The 150 most frequently prescribed drugs, in the most common quantities.
  Prices from pharmacies that participate in the Medicaid program.
  http://rx.nyhealth.gov/pdpw/
• Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Rx Price Finder
  State of Pennsylvania, First Health Services Corporation
  Search by drug name, then by city, or zip code
  http://www.parxpricefinder.com/
• Washington:Washington State Office of the Attorney General
  http://www.atg.wa.gov/PrescriptionDrugPrices/default.aspx

• Search MedlinePlus®:
  
  
  • Financial Assistance at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/financialassistance.html
  • Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medicareprescriptiondrugcoverage.html
  • Medicare at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medicare.html

If your state is not listed above:

• Some individual pharmacies (drug stores) list their prices. Visit their Web sites for more information.
• Contact your local public, hospital or university library to ask what resources are available to you. Many local libraries may also have RED BOOK: Pharmacy"s Fundamental Reference.
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
  http://www.cms.hhs.gov/HealthCareConInit
  For selected procedures
  
  For more information, visit http://www.cms.gov OR call 877-267-2323 (Toll-Free) or 410-786-3000 (Voice/Fax).
• You may also find information on a drug company's Web site, or by using an Internet search engine to find other information. For example, the Drug Digest web site includes drug interactions and drug comparisons, at http://www.drugdigest.org/wps/portal/ddigest

NOTE: The NLM® does not approve or guarantee information at other sites.

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Last reviewed: 19 November 2009
Last updated: 19 November 2009
First published: 07 August 2009
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