ABSORICA 20 MG CAPSULE

What it is

ABSORICA 20 MG CAPSULE is how the CMS NADAC file names this product. The FDA NDC Directory lists it as isotretinoin, under the trade name “Absorica”.

FDA gives its dosage form as capsule and its route as oral.

The labeler, the company named on the label, is Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc.

FDA’s Established Pharmacologic Class for it is Retinoid.

The NADAC file of 2026-10-14 prices it under 2 NDCs (National Drug Codes); the FDA directory lists 1 of them.

NADAC classes it as a brand-name drug (rate-setting class B), and does not mark it as sold over the counter.

What pharmacies pay

Pharmacies pay $1,072.32 for 30 capsules (30 × $35.74413 per EA, rounded to the cent), by the CMS NADAC file of 2026-10-14; that price took effect on 2026-07-22. That is what pharmacies pay their suppliers, not what they charge you.

NADAC’s explanation code for it: 4, carried forward from the previous file.

The NADAC of all 2 NDCs was carried forward from an earlier file (NADAC explanation code 2 or 4), not newly surveyed: those prices took effect on 2026-07-22. The file is new; the price is not.

NADAC also lists, on the row of its brand NDCs, what pharmacies pay for the generic equivalent, a different product: $4.25389 per EA filed.

CMS NADAC · nadac-national-average-drug-acquisition-cost-20261014.csv · eff. 2026-09-23 · as of 2026-10-14 · retrieved 2026-10-17

What NADAC measures · Why 30 capsules · NADAC explanation codes · Carried-forward prices

All 2 NDCs

• 10631-0116-31 · Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. · $35.74413 per EA · eff. 2026-07-22 filed carried forward
• 10631-0116-69 · not listed as a package in the FDA directory · $35.74413 per EA · eff. 2026-07-22 filed carried forward

Other strengths, forms and brands

22 other products in the NADAC file share the FDA nonproprietary name isotretinoin with ABSORICA 20 MG CAPSULE.

Part D is one average per brand and generic name, over every strength and form.

CMS NADAC · nadac-national-average-drug-acquisition-cost-20261014.csv · eff. between 2025-12-17 and 2026-09-23 (5 dates) · as of 2026-10-14 · retrieved 2026-10-17

Medicare Part D · DSD_PTD_RY26_P04_V10_DY24_BGM.csv · eff. 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · as of 2026-06-25 · retrieved 2026-10-18

Compared with its class

The middle of its 2 NDCs’ NADAC prices is $35.74413 per EA filed.

Of the 26 other products in FDA’s Retinoid class priced per EA, 5 have a higher middle NADAC price and 21 a lower one. The one in the middle is ACITRETIN 10 MG CAPSULE, at $2.59463 per EA filed (eff. 2026-09-23).

Prices are compared per unit, whatever the strength or dose, and a class is not a list of substitutes.

CMS NADAC · nadac-national-average-drug-acquisition-cost-20261014.csv · eff. 2026-07-22, 2026-09-23 · as of 2026-10-14 · retrieved 2026-10-17

How the class comparison works

What Medicare paid

We don’t know yet; the card above says why.

Which Medicare figure OpenBill compares · How Part D is matched · How Part B is matched

What to ask at the counter

None of these figures is your price: what you pay depends on your pharmacy, your insurance, coupons and discounts.

• What is your cash price for 30 capsules? Is it lower than what I would pay through my insurance?
• Is a generic version available, and would it suit me? NADAC lists a generic with the same ingredient, strength and dosage form by FDA: AMNESTEEM 20 MG CAPSULE. Ask your pharmacist or prescriber; do not switch on your own.
• These are questions about price, not medical advice. Do not change or stop a medicine without talking to your prescriber or pharmacist.