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Methylphenidate Transdermal System

Generic name: Methylphenidate

FDA application holder: Noven Pharms Inc

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Everything here comes from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): the NDC Directory, Drugs@FDA, the official labels and recall reports; pharmacy costs come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Each fact shows its source and date.

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Quick answers

What is Methylphenidate Transdermal System?
Methylphenidate Transdermal System is a brand name of Methylphenidate, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 4 Methylphenidate Transdermal System products in 4 strengths and forms.
Who makes Methylphenidate Transdermal System?
Noven Pharms Inc holds the FDA application for Methylphenidate Transdermal System (NDA021514, approved April 6, 2006).
Is there a generic or store brand of Methylphenidate Transdermal System?
Other products of Methylphenidate are listed with the FDA, but none in exactly the same strength and form as a Methylphenidate Transdermal System product.
What do pharmacies pay for Methylphenidate Transdermal System?
CMS lists a National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC) for 4 Methylphenidate Transdermal System strengths and forms (see the table below). That is what pharmacies pay to buy it, not what you pay: your price depends on your insurance and your pharmacy.
Has Methylphenidate Transdermal System been recalled?
No recall linked to Methylphenidate Transdermal System products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Methylphenidate Transdermal System is

Each Methylphenidate Transdermal System product as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, by active ingredient, strength and form, with its official label. “Same medicine, other names” counts the other products with exactly the same active ingredients, strength and form (generic versions, store brands and other brands); inactive ingredients can differ.

Methylphenidate · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
methylphenidate 27.5 mg/mg
patch (transdermal)
Methylphenidate Transdermal System None listed DailyMed
methylphenidate 41.3 mg/mg
patch (transdermal)
Methylphenidate Transdermal System None listed DailyMed
methylphenidate 55 mg/mg
patch (transdermal)
Methylphenidate Transdermal System None listed DailyMed
methylphenidate 82.5 mg/mg
patch (transdermal)
Methylphenidate Transdermal System None listed DailyMed

Its page lists every product and company, the FDA label’s uses and boxed warning, approvals, shortages and recalls: Methylphenidate →

FDA approval

  • NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.
FDA applications of Methylphenidate Transdermal System products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
NDA021514Noven Pharms IncApril 6, 20064

What pharmacies pay (NADAC)

The National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC) is the average price U.S. retail pharmacies paid to buy one unit of a medicine (one tablet, one mL or one gram), from a monthly survey of pharmacy invoices by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). State Medicaid programs use it to pay pharmacies.

This is not the price you pay. What you pay depends on your insurance (copay or coinsurance), your pharmacy and any discounts, and pharmacies also charge for filling a prescription. Ask your pharmacist or your health plan what your price will be.

NADAC per unit for Methylphenidate Transdermal System, by strength and form
Strength and formGeneric or brandPharmacies pay
methylphenidate 27.5 mg/mg
patch
Generic: Methylphenidate Transdermal System $6.30 per patch
Generic of the same strength and form: $6.30 per patch
methylphenidate 41.3 mg/mg
patch
Generic: Methylphenidate Transdermal System $6.27 per patch
Generic of the same strength and form: $6.27 per patch
methylphenidate 55 mg/mg
patch
Generic: Methylphenidate Transdermal System $6.16 per patch
Generic of the same strength and form: $6.16 per patch
methylphenidate 82.5 mg/mg
patch
Generic: Methylphenidate Transdermal System $6.61 per patch
Generic of the same strength and form: $6.61 per patch

NADAC list of November 4, 2026; these prices took effect on October 21, 2026. Shown only where a package’s NDC code matches the NADAC list exactly, and only for that exact strength and form: nothing is averaged across strengths. Strengths and forms not listed here have no NADAC price.

Source: NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost) 2026, data.medicaid.gov (CMS) →

Companies that list Methylphenidate Transdermal System

The company named on the package (holder, repackager or distributor), as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, with its number of Methylphenidate Transdermal System products.

Recalls

No recall linked to Methylphenidate Transdermal System products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports.

Sources

  1. NDC Directory (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  2. Drugs@FDA (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  3. Drug labeling (SPL, openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  4. Drug recall enforcement reports (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 27, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  5. NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost) 2026 — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), data.medicaid.gov, list of November 4, 2026, retrieved November 7, 2026

Which names get a brand page: a name the NDC Directory lists for a medicine, held by one company (the FDA application holder, or the company named on most of its products), that is not just a description, and that is not the only product of its medicine.

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