How do you pay?

How to pay the least

Ask for the cash price

UPTRAVI

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

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

Free from the maker, if you qualify Johnson & Johnson Patient Assistance Program (pulmonary hypertension medicines). Patients’ income must be equal to or less than 300% of Federal Poverty Level (FPL). Or call 1-833-742-0791.

See if you qualify 

Compare every option

Question
Brand nameUPTRAVI
Authorized genericselexipag
Regular genericselexipag
What you’d pay
Cash priceAsk the pharmacy
Not soldThere isn’t one
Not soldNot in stores yet
Same as UPTRAVI?
The original
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Brand nameThe maker’s card

J&J withMe Oral PAH Savings Program

Savings card from Johnson & Johnson (Actelion)

No insuranceNeeds insuranceNo cash price listed.
Insurance · as little as $5 a fill

Sign up on jnjwithme.com 

Or call 1-833-742-0791.

In the maker’s words

“Eligible patients pay $5 per prescription fill.”

From the maker’s offer on jnjwithme.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 UPTRAVI itself, from the same company, sold without the brand name, and usually for less. For now UPTRAVI is the only choice; its maker’s savings card can lower what you pay.

See the brand name →

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 maker’s savings card is the way to pay less.

See the brand name →

What it’s used for

What the FDA label says

UPTRAVI is a prostacyclin receptor agonist indicated for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH, WHO Group I):

  • In adults to delay disease progression and reduce the risk of hospitalization for PAH.
  • In pediatric patients aged 2 years and older. UPTRAVI reduces NT-proBNP and is expected to delay disease progression and reduce the risk of hospitalization for PAH.

Source: the FDA label for UPTRAVI (Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.), May 28, 2026. Full label on DailyMed 

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