ALISKIREN: what pharmacies pay, and what that tells you

Acquisition cost from CMS NADAC, 2026-07-22. Updated August 30, 2026.

GenericPrescriptiontight price spread

ALISKIREN costs a pharmacy a median of $4.94 per unit. That is what the pharmacy pays to acquire it. It is not your price: a dispensing fee and margin sit between this number and your receipt.

$4.94median acquisition cost per unit

72%of priced drugs cost less than this one

116listed products, more than 62% of the corpus

1.4xspread from the cheapest tenth to the dearest

There is not much to optimise on this one

ALISKIREN is bought at close to the same price everywhere, with a 1.4x spread across listings. The honest answer is that where you fill it will not move the number much, and the effort is better spent elsewhere.

Where it sits against every other priced drug

Acquisition cost percentile, 3,439 priced products

ALISKIREN · 72%

cheapestdearest

This sits in the middle of the corpus, the range where where-you-fill-it genuinely changes the total.

What the spread tells you about shopping around

Between the cheapest tenth of listings and the dearest tenth, ALISKIREN varies by 1.4 times. That is a tight band. That is less ordinary at this cost level, where products more often vary between suppliers. Pharmacies are buying it at close to the same price, so a difference in what you are charged is a difference in fees and margin rather than in the drug.

Documented interactions

Lisinopril with Aliskiren (Severe). Combining lisinopril with aliskiren (a direct renin inhibitor) provides dual blockade of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS), which increases the risk of hyperkalemia...

Interaction data is informational and not a substitute for your pharmacist, who can see your full list.

A note on the 30-unit figure. Thirty units of ALISKIREN would cost a pharmacy about $148.32. That is a comparison basis, not a prescription quantity and not a monthly cost: it assumes one unit at a time and says nothing about how this drug is actually dosed.

What this page is, and is not

Every figure here is CMS NADAC, the federal survey of what retail pharmacies pay to acquire a drug. It is public-domain federal data and it is the cleanest available floor. It excludes your dispensing fee, your pharmacy's margin, your insurance design and any discount-card pricing, all of which sit between this number and what you hand over. Nothing here is medical advice.

Source: CMS NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, dataset generated 2026-07-22. See how ALISKIREN compares across 385 brand and generic pairs, or look up another drug in our price tools.