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Systane Lubricant

polyethylene glycol 400 and Propylene Glycol · POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL 400 4 mg/mL; PROPYLENE GLYCOL 3 mg/mL · Solution/ Drops · Ophthalmic · Alcon Laboratories, Inc.

NDC 00065-0429-30 · 1 BOTTLE, DROPPER in 1 CARTON / 30 mL in 1 BOTTLE, DROPPER · OTC MONOGRAPH DRUG · View full market →

The short version

Only one company currently supplies this market — there is no backup if it stumbles. The price has held steady around $0.5673 per mL over the past year. Put together: worth watching — several of the pressures that precede supply trouble are present at once.

The numbers behind every sentence are on this page below — and the Watch button emails you when any of them move.

One drug, every price

The same NDC has different prices depending on who is paying. Units differ between rungs — compare within a rung over time, not rung against rung, unless the units match.

ⓘ How this was built
Data sources
  • CMS NADAC (pharmacy acquisition, weekly)
  • CMS Part B ASP quarterly payment limits
  • CMS Maximum Fair Prices (IRA negotiated, NDC-level)
  • Medicare Part D Spending by Drug (data.cms.gov, name-matched)
  • VA FSS / Big4 federal contract prices (va.gov, twice monthly)
  • ACA Federal Upper Limits + weighted AMP (data.medicaid.gov, monthly)
  • California SB-17 WAC filings (list price, per package)
Method

Each rung is the newest figure for this NDC from one federal price system, shown with its own unit. Part D is matched by drug name because CMS publishes no NDCs there; it is gross spending, before confidential rebates.

Pipeline and calculations built by Claude (Fable 5) from the public datasets above. Educational only — verify against primary sources before acting.

  • Pharmacies pay (NADAC)$0.5673per MLinvoice-surveyed acquisition cost · Aug 19, 2026
  • Federal contracts pay (FSS)$14.10per package of 30MLAlcon Vision, LLC · Sep 24, 2020

Medicare Part D

Medicare Part D does not cover over-the-counter drugs — by law it pays only for products requiring a prescription.

How Part D pricing works →

NADAC price per unit

$0$0.2$0.4$0.6Oct 2013Sep 2026$0.5673
69 price points · per MLSource: CMS NADAC

Medicaid spend (2025)

$401,131
16,803 prescriptions paid by Medicaid nationally · all Medicaid spend →

Supply fragility

30Elevated risk

The score is counting real pressure here. One of these alone is routine; it’s the combination that makes this market worth watching.

  • 1 active manufacturer+30

The score counts pressure that is already visible — fewer makers, shortages, recalls, falling prices. 0 means none of it; 100 means all of it at once. Recomputed daily · as of Sep 3, 2026

90-day shortage risk (model v2)

0.1%chance of a new FDA shortage posting for polyethylene glycol 400, propylene glycol (other) in the next 90 days

sole-source market · 2 Class I/II recall(s) in 12 months · price up 1% YoY

For scale: the typical drug’s chance is about 0.1% — this one is in ordinary territory.

Backtested statistical model over the whole market, not this package alone. Model details →

Regulatory

Application
M018
TE code
Approval date
Patents / exclusivity
None on file

Shortage history

No FDA shortage reports for this drug or its presentations.

Recalls (this NDC)

  • Class II · TerminatedJun 29, 2022
    Mckesson Medical-Surgical Inc. Corporate OfficeCGMP Deviations: products were stored outside the drug label specifications.

Manufacturers of polyethylene glycol 400 and Propylene Glycol (Solution/ Drops)

LabelerStrengthFirst seenLast seen
Alcon Laboratories, Inc.POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL 400 4 mg/mL; PROPYLENE GLYCOL 3 mg/mLJul 15, 2026Sep 3, 2026

Roster from daily NDC Directory diffs — first/last seen dates start July 2026.

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DrugDashboards, "Systane Lubricant — NDC 00065-0429-30," retrieved September 3, 2026, https://drugdashboards.com/drug/00065042930.

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