The short version
Only one company currently supplies this market — there is no backup if it stumbles. The price has held steady around $37.85 per unit over the past year.
Market view
buprenorphine · Patch
5 marketed package NDCs · 1 active manufacturer
Most dispensed: HYDROCHLORIDE 8 mg · Tablet · #30 tablets/bottle · HYDROCHLORIDE 2 mg · Tablet · #30 tablets/bottle · 20 ug/h · Patch, Extended Release · #4 pouchs/carton / 1 patch in 1 pouch / 168 h in 1 patch · 10 ug/h · Patch, Extended Release · #4 pouchs/carton / 1 patch in 1 pouch / 168 h in 1 patch
Price range and competition
RSS: changes for this drugEvery company selling this drug reports its own price. The line follows the middle of the pack; the shaded band holds the middle half of companies — the wider it is, the more they disagree.
Latest · Sep 2026 — typical price $37.85 · middle half $33.75–$52.70 · full range $23.82–$57.32 · 5 products · 1 companies
ⓘ How this was built
Data sources
- CMS NADAC weekly survey + monthly archives back to 2013 (data.medicaid.gov)
- CMS Federal Upper Limit files (weighted AMP)
- FDA NDC Directory (openFDA) — maker roster
Method
Each month's band spans the NADAC unit prices of every NDC of this drug (min, quartiles, median, max), split into brand and generic cohorts by FDA marketing category. Maker counts come from distinct labelers with the NDC actively listed.
Pipeline and calculations built by Claude (Fable 5) from the public datasets above. Educational only — verify against primary sources before acting.
What changed in the last 90 days
Every detected change for buprenorphine, newest first — price moves, shortages, recalls, and manufacturers entering or leaving. Detected by comparing each day’s federal data against the day before.
- BuprenorphineAug 19, 2026Price upNADAC $35.6137 → $37.85016 per unit (+6.28%)
- BuprenorphineAug 19, 2026Price upNADAC $54.2378 → $57.31739 per unit (+5.68%)
- BuprenorphineAug 19, 2026Price upNADAC $50.15984 → $52.6954 per unit (+5.05%)
- BuprenorphineAug 19, 2026Price upNADAC $31.32023 → $33.75264 per unit (+7.77%)
- BuprenorphineAug 19, 2026Price upNADAC $22.92249 → $23.81869 per unit (+3.91%)
- BuprenorphineAug 19, 2026Price upNADAC $0.5618 → $0.56762 per unit (+1.04%)
- BuprenorphineAug 19, 2026Price downNADAC $0.27156 → $0.26477 per unit (-2.5%)
- BuprenorphineAug 19, 2026Price upNADAC $0.5618 → $0.56762 per unit (+1.04%)
- BuprenorphineAug 19, 2026Price downNADAC $0.27156 → $0.26477 per unit (-2.5%)
- ButransAug 19, 2026Price upNADAC $124.59981 → $124.6134 per unit (+0.01%)
Same drug class
Other molecules FDA puts in Partial Opioid Agonist, with whether each is in shortage right now. Same class is not the same drug — substitution is a clinical decision, and this is a supply picture, not a recommendation.
- buprenorphine hydrochloride, naloxone hydrochloride· 1 maker
- buprenorphine sublingual· 1 maker
- buprenorphine sublingual c-iii· 1 maker
- buprenorphine hydrochloride and naloxone hydrochloride· 4 makers
- buprenorphine hcl· 10 makers
- buprenorphine hydrochloride and naloxone hydrochloride dihydrate· 10 makers
- buprenorphine and naloxone· 19 makers
- buprenorphine hydrochloride· 29 makers
Common questions
- Is Buprenorphine in shortage right now?
- No. FDA does not currently list Buprenorphine in shortage. This page is rebuilt every morning from FDA's shortage database, so a new posting appears here the day it is published.
- Who makes Buprenorphine?
- 37 companies have marketed Buprenorphine in the last 30 days, according to the FDA NDC Directory. Every manufacturer and package is listed on this page.
- What does Buprenorphine cost?
- The typical pharmacy pays about $33.75 per unit, based on the most recent CMS NADAC survey of actual acquisition costs. That is what the pharmacy pays for the drug itself — not the cash price, and not what an insurer is billed.
All marketed products
Expand a strength to see its dosage forms, then package sizes, then each manufacturer and NDC. Click an NDC for its full detail page.