Methodology

Generated 17 September 2026. Every number on this site is a republished government price. Nothing here is a claim about any hospital, pharmacy or company.

What is compared

Every number on this site is picked up directly from a government source. For each item we show published government numbers, per single unit:

• The state rate contract price - what a state medical services corporation has agreed to pay a supplier under a public tender, taken from that state's own procurement portal.
• The NPPA ceiling price - the maximum price at which a scheduled formulation may legally be sold to a retail patient, fixed by the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order and notified in the Gazette with an S.O. number.
• The printed retail MRP - the cheapest brand's published maximum retail price, from NPPA's own Pharma Sahi Daam database. This is what a patient actually pays at a pharmacy.

The ratio between the two is arithmetic between two published numbers. It is not a claim that anyone overcharged anyone.

Per-unit normalisation - the important correction

States publish rates on different bases. Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand quote a price per single unit (per tablet, per vial). Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan quote a price per pack, so we divide by the pack size parsed from the published unit text (“10 × 10 TABS” → 100). We calibrated this against common generics - paracetamol, atenolol, metformin - which all converge to the same per-tablet price once normalised. A price we cannot normalise with confidence is dropped rather than shown, because a false gap is the single most likely way this project could publish something untrue.

Which retail MRP is shown

The “patient pays” figure is the cheapest brand’s printed MRP for the same molecule and strength, from NPPA’s Pharma Sahi Daam database, taken per single unit. We only compute it for oral solids (tablets and capsules), where a per-tablet price is unambiguous; tablet and capsule brands of the same molecule are treated as interchangeable. We do not mix in a liquid’s per-millilitre price, we discard obvious data-entry errors (a stray sub-paisa SKU), and we do not assert an MRP that falls below the government’s own bulk rate — that is not a credible retail price, so those items show the NPPA ceiling instead. Where no brand MRP can be matched this way, the legal ceiling is shown and marked.

What the comparison does not prove

The state rate is a bulk tender rate and is not what a private hospital pays. The gap to the ceiling includes distribution, retail margin and smaller order volumes - it is not profit. Injectables and IV fluids, where states quote per millilitre versus per bottle, are still being normalised and are excluded from the high-confidence index.

GST

MRP is inclusive of taxes under Legal Metrology rules. If GST appears as a separate line above MRP on a bill, it is worth asking about. We do not compute a GST verdict: hospital billing is a composite supply and the treatment of bundled consumables is genuinely contested.

Sources

• Bihar - BMSICL, rate contract, refreshed 17 Sept 2026.
• Jharkhand - JMHIDPCL, rate contract, refreshed 17 Sept 2026.
• Odisha - OSMCL, rate contract, refreshed 17 Sept 2026.
• Rajasthan - RMSCL, rate contract, refreshed 17 Sept 2026.
• Tamil Nadu - TNMSC, rate contract, refreshed 17 Sept 2026.
• Uttar Pradesh - UPMSCL, rate contract, refreshed 17 Sept 2026.
• NPPA ceiling prices & printed MRP - Pharma Sahi Daam / NPPA IPDMS, with the gazette S.O. number on each ceiling row.
• Jan Aushadhi prices - PMBI published product price list.

All sources above are official government portals. Nothing on this site is submitted by a member of the public.

Data is rebuilt nightly and each source is re-fetched weekly. Every fetched document is archived with a hash and a capture date.

Corrections

No corrections have been issued yet. Any number changed after publication will be listed here with its date. Spot an error, or know a source we should add? Write to mrpYourHealth@gmail.com.

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