How do you pay?

How to pay the least

Ask for the cash price

Aralast NP

Aralast NP is a biologic. Biologics don’t have generics, but some have biosimilars or an unbranded version from the same maker. Ask your pharmacist or prescriber whether one is sold.

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

Compare every option

Question
Brand nameAralast NP
Authorized genericalpha-1-proteinase inhibitor (human)
Regular genericalpha-1-proteinase inhibitor (human)
What you’d pay
Cash priceAsk the pharmacy
Not soldThere isn’t one
Not soldAsk the pharmacy
Same as Aralast NP?
The original
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Brand nameThe maker’s card

Takeda Patient Support Co-Pay Assistance Program

Savings card from Takeda

No insuranceNeeds insuranceNo cash price listed.
Insurance · up to $20,000 off a year

The card takes up to $20,000 a year off your co-pay.

Sign up on takedapatientsupport.com 

In the maker’s words

“The maximum co-pay assistance available annually is $20,000…”

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

See the brand name →

Regular genericNot sold

Aralast NP is a biologic. Biologics don’t have generics, but some have biosimilars or an unbranded version from the same maker. Ask your pharmacist or prescriber whether one is sold. 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

ARALAST NP is an Alpha1-Proteinase Inhibitor (Human) (Alpha1-PI) indicated for chronic augmentation therapy in adults with clinically evident emphysema due to severe congenital deficiency of Alpha1-PI (alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency). ARALAST NP increases antigenic and functional (anti-neutrophil elastase capacity, ANEC) serum levels and antigenic lung epithelial lining fluid levels of Alpha1-PI.

The effect of augmentation therapy with any Alpha1-PI, including ARALAST NP, on pulmonary exacerbations and on the progression of emphysema in alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency has not been conclusively demonstrated in randomized, controlled clinical trials.

Clinical data demonstrating the long-term effects of chronic augmentation and maintenance therapy of individuals with ARALAST NP or ARALAST are not available.

ARALAST NP is not indicated as therapy for lung disease in patients in whom severe Alpha1-PI deficiency has not been established.

Source: the FDA label for Aralast NP (Takeda Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.), November 25, 2025. Full label on DailyMed 

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