How do you pay?

How to pay the least

Ask for the cash price

Nuzyra

We didn’t find one.

  1. Ask your pharmacy for Nuzyra’s cash price, and one or two other pharmacies too.
  2. Nuzyra’s savings card works only with insurance from a job or one you bought.

Compare every option

Question
Brand nameNuzyra
Authorized genericomadacycline
Regular genericomadacycline
What you’d pay
Cash priceAsk the pharmacy
Not soldThere isn’t one
Not soldNone found
Same as Nuzyra?
The original
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Brand nameThe maker’s card

NUZYRA Copay Program

Savings card from Paratek Pharmaceuticals

No insuranceNeeds insuranceNo cash price listed.
Insurance · as little as $0 a prescription

Sign up on nuzyra.com 

In the maker’s words

“With the NUZYRA Copay Program, the majority of eligible patients with commercial insurance may pay as little as $0.”

From the maker’s offer on nuzyra.com, checked November 2, 2026. Co-pay cards can’t be used with Medicare (including Medicare Advantage), Medicaid, TRICARE or VA.

Maker’s card or discount card?

A discount card like GoodRx lowers the pharmacy’s cash price, but for a brand-name drug that price often stays high. Compare it with the maker’s card above. You can usually use one or the other on a fill, not both.

Authorized genericNot sold

There isn’t one. An authorized generic is Nuzyra itself, from the same company, sold without the brand name, and usually for less. For now Nuzyra is the only choice; its maker’s savings card can lower what you pay.

See the brand name →

Regular genericNot sold

We didn’t find one. Generics usually come once the brand’s patents and exclusivity end. Until then, the maker’s savings card is the way to pay less.

See the brand name →

What it’s used for

What the FDA label says

NUZYRA is a tetracycline class antibacterial indicated for the treatment of adult patients with the following infections caused by susceptible microorganisms:

  • Community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP)
  • Acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI)

To reduce the development of drug-resistant bacteria and maintain the effectiveness of NUZYRA and other antibacterial drugs, NUZYRA should be used only to treat or prevent infections that are proven or strongly suspected to be caused by bacteria.

Source: the FDA label for Nuzyra (Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), May 27, 2026. Full label on DailyMed 

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