OxyContin

Generic name: oxycodone

Used for: Severe long-term pain that needs an opioid

How do you pay?

How to pay the least

Ask for the cash price

Authorized generic

OxyContin itself, without the brand name. It usually costs less than OxyContin.

  1. Ask your pharmacy for the cash price of OxyContin’s authorized generic. Its NDC is on this page; the pharmacy may need to order it.See its NDC
  2. Ask for OxyContin’s cash price too, and pick the lower one.

Sold only in a different form, strength or formula. Switching to one would need a new prescription, so ask your prescriber whether it could work for you.

Compare every option

Question
Brand nameOxyContin
Authorized genericoxycodone
Regular genericoxycodone
What you’d pay
At least$170for 30 tablets; pharmacies pay this
Cash priceAsk the pharmacyOften less than OxyContin
Other forms onlyAsk your doctor
Same as OxyContin?
The original
Same medicine
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Brand nameNo maker’s card

We didn’t find a savings card or cash price from OxyContin’s maker. Ask the pharmacy for OxyContin’s cash price. With insurance, ask what your plan charges.

Authorized genericThe NDC to ask for

The same medicine as OxyContin, without the brand name. Give the pharmacy its NDC to get it.

oxycodone

Sold by
  • Amneal PharmaceuticalsMade by Purdue Pharma, the company behind OxyContin
NDC to ask for
  • 40 mgextended-release tablet
    • 0115-1560-0111-digit: 00115-1560-01100 tablets per bottle

Source: FDA, updated October 30, 2026

What to say at the pharmacy

“Before you fill my OxyContin, can you tell me what I’d pay for the brand, for the authorized generic from Amneal Pharmaceuticals (NDC 0115-1560-01)?”

Paying cash? Ask for each one’s cash price. With insurance, ask what your plan charges for each.

Brand and authorized generic labels

Official labels and ingredient lists from DailyMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine).

Same active ingredient. A few inactive ingredients are listed differently (below). Ask your pharmacist if that matters for you, for example with an allergy.

BrandOxyContin
Authorized genericAmneal Pharmaceuticals
See the ingredients

Active: oxycodone hydrochloride 40 mg

Inactive, on both labels:

  • Butylated hydroxytoluene
  • Ferric oxide yellow
  • Hypromellose
  • Magnesium stearate
  • Polyethylene glycol
  • Polysorbate 80
  • Titanium dioxide

Only on the authorized generic’s label: Polyethylene glycol 400

Regular genericNot sold

Sold only in a different form, strength or formula. Switching to one would need a new prescription, so ask your prescriber whether it could work for you. Generics usually come once the brand’s patents and exclusivity end. Until then, the authorized generic is the lower-cost way to get OxyContin.

See the authorized generic →

What it’s used for

What the FDA label says
  • OXYCONTIN is an opioid agonist indicated for the management of severe and persistent pain that requires an opioid analgesic that cannot be adequately treated with alternative options, including immediate-release opioids in:
  • Adults; and
  • Opioid-tolerant pediatric patients 11 years of age and older who are already receiving and tolerate a minimum daily opioid dose of at least 20 mg oxycodone orally or its equivalent.

Limitations of Use

  • Because of the risks of addiction, abuse, misuse, overdose, and death, which can occur at any dosage or duration and persist over the course of therapy, reserve opioid analgesics, including OXYCONTIN, for use in patients for whom alternative treatment options are ineffective, not tolerated, or would be otherwise inadequate to provide sufficient management of pain.
  • OXYCONTIN is not indicated as an as-needed (prn) analgesic.

Source: the FDA label for OxyContin (Knoa Pharma LLC), June 24, 2026. Full label on DailyMed 

Good to know

Prices change: confirm with the pharmacy before you fill. drugalt.com/drug/oxycontin/