Drugs and formularies

NADAC — National Average Drug Acquisition Cost

drug_silver.fact_drug_acquisition_cost·live·silver·NADAC — National Average Drug Acquisition Cost

Rows

16,260,115

Columns

History

N/A

Card

nocolumns only

Typed tools

What it is

1Pharmacy ACQUISITION cost ("what the pharmacy paid" — a cost FLOOR, not a payment, list price, or ASP). unit_price_usd is per pricing_unit (EA/ML/GM); normalize to the same unit + package_size before comparing across NDCs.

Grain

Key	Grain
N/A	1One row per (ndc11, observed_period_start/week, price_type). 2CERTIFIED 2026-06-03; history gap CLOSED and re-measured 2026-08-10 (see known_gaps).

Columns (29)

Column	Type	Meaning
`ndc11`	string
`observed_period_start`	date
`price_type`	string
`unit_price_usd`	double
`ndc_description`	string
`pricing_unit`	string
`package_size`	double
`is_otc`	boolean
`explanation_code`	string
`effective_date`	date
`pharmacy_type_indicator`	string
`classification_for_rate_setting`	string
`corresponding_generic_unit_price_usd`	double
`corresponding_generic_effective_date`	date
`observed_period`	date
`asserted_at`	date
`effective_period_start`	date
`effective_period_end`	date
`cms_vintage_sequence`	int
`parse_revision`	int
`parser_artifact_hash`	string
`source_url`	string
`sha256_content_hash`	string
`source_id`	string
`is_current`	boolean
`bronze_object_key`	string
`s3_version_id`	string
`vintage_tag`	string
`drug_source_version_id`	string

Query it

describe_data_source(source_fqn="drug_silver.fact_drug_acquisition_cost")     # the card, live
query_substrate(sql="SELECT * FROM drug_silver.fact_drug_acquisition_cost WHERE <filter> LIMIT 100")

Item	Value
Typed tools that read it	none; raw SQL
Identity key	`ndc11`
Join	`how_to_join(source_fqn="drug_silver.fact_drug_acquisition_cost")`
Raw door	Athena (read-only via query_substrate): drug_silver.fact_drug_acquisition_cost (is_current = true)
Note	CERTIFIED (product1-cert-nadac-v1). Full 2013-2026 history served; the former current-window scoping is retired. Acquisition cost != payment/list/net.

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