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NADAC — National Average Drug Acquisition Cost

What pharmacies actually pay to acquire each drug, surveyed nationally. A true cost floor for a medication, distinct from list price or what a plan pays, and the baseline for judging drug markups.

What Vlada adds: Preserves the publisher data, normalizes schema eras and identifiers, and connects the product to compatible healthcare entities with measured join coverage.

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Publishers: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

What's inside

Primary dataset
Pharmacy ACQUISITION cost ("what the pharmacy paid" — a cost FLOOR, not a payment, list price, or ASP).
grain: One row per (ndc11, observed_period_start/week, price_type). CERTIFIED 2026-06-03 (scoped — see history gap).
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