Dalvance is given by a doctor or nurse and billed by the clinic, not a pharmacy. Your care team and your insurance decide which product you get, so ask them what you’d pay.

How do you pay?

How to pay the least

Given by your care team

Billed by the clinic

Dalvance is given by a doctor or nurse, not picked up at a pharmacy.

  1. Ask your care team or your plan what you’d pay before your visit.

Compare every option

Question
Brand nameDalvance
Authorized genericdalbavancin
Regular genericdalbavancin
What you’d pay
Cash priceAsk the pharmacyUsually the highest price
Not soldThere isn’t one
Cash priceAsk the pharmacyUsually the lowest
Same as Dalvance?
The original
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Same active ingredientFillers and dyes can differ

Brand nameThe maker’s card

Dalvance Connects Copay Assistance Program

Savings card from AbbVie (Allergan)

No insuranceNeeds insuranceNo cash price listed.
Insurance · up to $2,000 off a year

The card takes up to $2,000 a year off your co-pay.

Sign up on dalvance.com 

Or call 1-855-387-2824.

In the maker’s words

“The Dalvance Connects® Copay Assistance Program may assist eligible patients with their out-of-pocket costs for DALVANCE, up to a maximum benefit of $2000 per calendar year.”

From the maker’s offer on dalvance.com, checked November 2, 2026. Co-pay cards can’t be used with Medicare (including Medicare Advantage), Medicaid, TRICARE or VA.

Authorized genericNot sold

There isn’t one. An authorized generic is Dalvance itself, from the same company, sold without the brand name, and usually for less. A regular generic is sold, with the same active ingredient: ask the pharmacy for its price.

See the regular generic →

Regular genericWho makes it

4 companies sell an FDA-rated generic of Dalvance. It’s given by your care team, who choose which one to use.

  • Fresenius Kabi500 mg/25 mL

    Has lactose

    Product page on fresenius-kabi.com

    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    500 mg/25 mL

    PackageNDC
    Package of 25 mL65219-120-12

    Inactive ingredients: lactose monohydrate, mannitol, sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid

    FDA label

  • Long Grove Pharmaceuticals500 mg

    Has lactose

    Product page on longgrovepharma.com

    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    500 mg

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 181298-2390-1

    Inactive ingredients: lactose monohydrate, mannitol

    FDA label

  • Meitheal Pharmaceuticals500 mg/25 mL

    Has lactose · Made by Kindos Pharmaceuticals

    Product page on meithealpharma.com

    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    500 mg/25 mL

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 25 mL71288-034-50

    Inactive ingredients: lactose monohydrate, mannitol

    FDA label

  • Teva Pharmaceuticals500 mg/25 mL

    Has lactose

    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    500 mg/25 mL

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 25 mL0480-3325-01

    Inactive ingredients: lactose monohydrate, mannitol, sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid

    FDA label

Who sells it: FDA and Medicaid records, updated weekly. Each maker’s page, card and program is from its own site.

What it’s used for

What the FDA label says

DALVANCE is a lipoglycopeptide antibacterial indicated for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI) caused by designated susceptible strains of Gram-positive microorganisms.

To reduce the development of drug-resistant bacteria and maintain the effectiveness of DALVANCE and other antibacterial drugs, DALVANCE should be used only to treat or prevent infections that are proven or strongly suspected to be caused by susceptible bacteria.

Source: the FDA label for Dalvance (Allergan, Inc.), January 13, 2025. Full label on DailyMed 

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