How do you pay?

How to pay the least

Ask for the cash price

Eohilia

Sold only in a different form, strength or formula. Switching to one would need a new prescription, so ask your prescriber whether it could work for you.

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

Free from the maker, if you qualify Takeda Help at Hand. Have a household income equal to or less than 5 times the Federal Poverty Level Or call 1-800-830-9159.

See if you qualify 

Compare every option

Question
Brand nameEohilia
Authorized genericbudesonide
Regular genericbudesonide
What you’d pay
Cash priceAsk the pharmacy
Not soldThere isn’t one
Other forms onlyAsk your doctor
Same as Eohilia?
The original
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Brand nameThe maker’s card

EOHILIA Copay Offer

Savings card from Takeda

No insuranceNeeds insuranceNo cash price listed.
Insurance · as little as $0 a prescription

The card takes up to $5,000 a year off your co-pay.

Sign up on eohilia.com 

Or call 1-866-861-1482.

In the maker’s words

“Eligible patients may pay as little as $0 if EOHILIA™ (budesonide oral suspension) is covered by their commercial insurance, with a max annual benefit of up to $5000 off their copay or out-of-pocket expenses.”

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

See the brand name →

Regular genericNot sold

Sold only in a different form, strength or formula. Switching to one would need a new prescription, so ask your prescriber whether it could work for you. 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

EOHILIA is a corticosteroid indicated for 12 weeks of treatment in adult and pediatric patients 11 years of age and older with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE).

Limitations of Use

EOHILIA has not been shown to be safe and effective for the treatment of EoE for longer than 12 weeks.

Source: the FDA label for Eohilia (TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICALS AMERICA, INC.), February 3, 2025. Full label on DailyMed 

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