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    VA Drug Pricing Database

    Metadata Updated: August 2, 2025

    The VA Drug Pricing database contains the current prices for pharmaceuticals purchased by the federal government. These listed prices are based on the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS). This database is mandated by Public Law 102-585, the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992, which sets the maximum amount that a drug may be bought for by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). The source of this information is contained in printed contracts or data files supplied by the drug manufacturers, representing the pricing agreements between VHA and the manufacturers. Price data is input by the National Acquisition Center (NAC) into the database administered by the Pharmacy Benefits Management Strategic Health Care Group. Information from this database is published on the World Wide Web at the following site: http://www.pbm.va.gov. The users of this database include pharmaceutical manufacturers, drug wholesalers, Office of Inspector General (OIG) and those who purchase pharmaceuticals for the VHA and other government agencies.

    Access & Use Information

    Non-public: This dataset is not for public access or use. Specific details are provided below. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    This dataset is part of the following collection:

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 2, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from VA JSON

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 2, 2025
    Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
    Maintainer
    Identifier VA-VHA-PBM-004
    Data First Published 2017-07-26
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2020-12-01
    Rights Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, protected health information.
    Category Basic Statistics, Use, and Operational Data
    Public Access Level non-public
    Bureau Code 029:15
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.data.va.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Collection Package Id fe230b06-03a9-400d-8010-3b7db75e214c
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 5c0860da-94c7-4e9b-925e-064eeaff9e06
    Harvest Source Id fcd1f625-1c2e-4663-95cf-1b0eb053cce1
    Harvest Source Title VA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.data.va.gov/d/pu94-4asd
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 029:047
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash ff7ec481c311c48a7e770093c3c2926d6ccee5499c7c6ae50c53f38aa0cf7477
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    System of Records https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-05-11/pdf/2012-11487.pdf
    Temporal 1993-01-01T05:00:00Z/2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

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