Piroxicam
This is a discussion on Piroxicam within the Managed Care Issues for Oral Drugs forum, part of the Managed Care Drug Coverage category; Does anyone know the reason for the sudden increase in the cost of piroxicam? It's gone from $2 per ...
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04-01-2010, 02:28 PM
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Piroxicam
Does anyone know the reason for the sudden increase in the cost of piroxicam? It's gone from $2 per month to $70 per month. It appears that many manufacturers have ceased production, which explains a lot. Is there more to this story?
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04-06-2010, 04:49 PM
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Re: Piroxicam
FDA is not currently reporting a drug shortage for piroxicam. According to Drugs@FDA, the following are registered manufacturers: Mutual (10mg), Nostrum (10 and 20mg), Mylan, Teva and Watson. However, in late March 2010, ASHP reported a drug shortage, indicating that Mylan (and UDL)’s product has been discontinued since 2009. URL (Mutual)’s products have been d/c since 2000. It appears that Watson’s generic is not available as of April 2010. Teva’s generics are backordered until late April 2010. With regards to Nostrum, they have the 20mg available (in 100 count). The 10mg (100 count) has an estimated release date in early April 2010.
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