Tasmar

Generic name: tolcapone

Used for: Parkinson’s disease

How do you pay?

How to pay the least

Ask for the cash price

Authorized generic

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

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

The FDA has approved a generic, but it isn’t in pharmacies yet.

Compare every option

Question
Brand nameTasmar
Authorized generictolcapone
Regular generictolcapone
What you’d pay
Cash priceAsk the pharmacyUsually the highest price
Cash priceAsk the pharmacyOften less than Tasmar
Not soldNot in stores yet
Same as Tasmar?
The original
Same medicine
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Brand nameNo maker’s card

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

Authorized genericThe NDC to ask for

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

tolcapone

Sold by
  • Oceanside PharmaceuticalsPart of Bausch Health, the company behind Tasmar
NDC to ask for
  • 100 mgtablet
    • 68682-938-9011-digit: 68682-0938-9090 tablets per bottle

Source: FDA, updated October 30, 2026

What to say at the pharmacy

“Before you fill my Tasmar, can you tell me what I’d pay for the brand, for the authorized generic from Oceanside Pharmaceuticals (NDC 68682-938-90)?”

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 and inactive ingredients as Tasmar.

BrandTasmar
Authorized genericOceanside Pharmaceuticals
See the ingredients

Active: tolcapone 100 mg

Inactive, on both labels:

  • Anhydrous dibasic calcium phosphate
  • Ethylcellulose
  • Ferric oxide red
  • Ferric oxide yellow
  • Hypromellose
  • Lactose monohydrate
  • Magnesium stearate
  • Microcrystalline cellulose
  • Povidone
  • Sodium lauryl sulfate
  • Sodium starch glycolate type A potato
  • Talc
  • Titanium dioxide
  • Triacetin
  • Water

Regular genericNot sold

The FDA has approved a generic, but it isn’t in pharmacies yet. Generics usually come once the brand’s patents and exclusivity end. Until then, the authorized generic is the lower-cost way to get Tasmar.

See the authorized generic →

What it’s used for

What the FDA label says

INDICATIONS:

TASMAR is indicated as an adjunct to levodopa and carbidopa for the treatment of the signs and symptoms of idiopathic Parkinson's disease. Because of the risk of potentially fatal, acute fulminant liver failure, TASMAR (tolcapone) should ordinarily be used in patients with Parkinson's disease on l-dopa/carbidopa who are experiencing symptom fluctuations and are not responding satisfactorily to or are not appropriate candidates for other adjunctive therapies. Because of the risk of liver injury and because TASMAR, when it is effective, provides an observable symptomatic benefit, the patient who fails to show substantial clinical benefit within 3 weeks of initiation of treatment, should be withdrawn from TASMAR.

The effectiveness of TASMAR was demonstrated in randomized controlled trials in patients receiving concomitant levodopa therapy with carbidopa or another aromatic amino acid decarboxylase inhibitor who experienced end of dose wearing-off phenomena as well as in patients who did not experience such phenomena (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: Clinical Studies).

Source: the FDA label for Tasmar (Bausch Health US LLC), October 2, 2020. Full label on DailyMed 

Good to know

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