FLEET PEDIA-LAX TABLET CHEW

What it is

FLEET PEDIA-LAX TABLET CHEW is how the CMS NADAC file names this product. The FDA NDC Directory lists it as magnesium hydroxide, under the trade name “Pedia-Lax”.

FDA gives its dosage form as tablet, chewable and its route as oral.

The labeler, the company named on the label, is C.B. Fleet Company, Inc.

FDA lists it under 2 Established Pharmacologic Classes: Calculi Dissolution Agent and Osmotic Laxative.

The NADAC file of 2026-10-14 prices it under one NDC (National Drug Code), 00132-0655-01.

NADAC classes it as a brand-name drug (rate-setting class B), and marks it as sold over the counter.

What pharmacies pay

Pharmacies pay $4.54 for 30 tablets (30 × $0.1512 per EA, rounded to the cent), by the CMS NADAC file of 2026-10-14; that price took effect on 2026-03-18. 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.

This NDC’s NADAC was carried forward from an earlier file (NADAC explanation code 2 or 4), not newly surveyed: it took effect on 2026-03-18. The file is new; the price is not.

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

The NDC

• 00132-0655-01 · C.B. Fleet Company, Inc. · $0.1512 per EA · eff. 2026-03-18 filed carried forward

Other strengths, forms and brands

2 other products in the NADAC file share the FDA nonproprietary name magnesium hydroxide with FLEET PEDIA-LAX TABLET CHEW.

CMS NADAC · nadac-national-average-drug-acquisition-cost-20261014.csv · eff. 2026-03-18, 2026-09-23 · as of 2026-10-14 · retrieved 2026-10-17

Compared with its class

Its NADAC price is $0.1512 per EA filed.

Of the 20 other products in FDA’s Calculi Dissolution Agent class priced per EA, 16 have a higher middle NADAC price and 4 a lower one. The one in the middle is GS DUAL ACTION COMPLETE TB CHW, at $0.2578 per EA filed (eff. 2026-09-23).

Of the 43 other products in FDA’s Osmotic Laxative class priced per EA, 29 have a higher middle NADAC price and 14 a lower one. The one in the middle is EFFER-K 20 MEQ TABLET EFF, at $0.523 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. 2026-03-18, 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 tablets? Is it lower than what I would pay through my insurance?
• It is sold over the counter, so shelf prices vary from store to store: what does it cost per unit here?
• These are questions about price, not medical advice. Do not change or stop a medicine without talking to your prescriber or pharmacist.