While the vast majority of brand-name prescription drug prices continue their seemingly inexorable climb to ever new highs, the average prices of most branded erectile dysfunction drugs moved lower from mid-2019 to early 2020.<\/p>\n
In fact, only Viagra inched higher in price over this period, although its increase was very modest indeed — a mere 0.8 percent from $79.28 in July 2019 to $79.93 in January 2020. All other branded ED medications had lower prices in January 2020 than they did in July 2019.<\/p>\n
Generic competition no doubt accounts for some of the price softening that occurred during this period. After all, the Big Three ED drugs — Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra — all compete with generic equivalents and have for more than a year.<\/p>\n
Ironically, however, Viagra, which has faced generic competition longer than any other ED drug in the United States, was the only medication in this group to go up, albeit slightly, in price.<\/p>\n