Fluorescein Sodium and Benoxinate Hydrochloride vs. its authorized generic and generics

Fluorescein Sodium and Benoxinate Hydrochloride 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 to pay the least

Given by your care team

Billed by the clinic

Fluorescein Sodium and Benoxinate Hydrochloride is given by a doctor or nurse, not picked up at a pharmacy.

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

Compare every option

Brand nameFluorescein Sodium and Benoxinate Hydrochloride

Authorized genericfluorescein and benoxinate

Regular genericfluorescein and benoxinate

What you’d pay

Cash priceAsk the pharmacyUsually the highest price

Cash priceAsk the pharmacyOften less than the brand

Not soldNone sold

Same as the brand?

The original

Same medicine

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Brand nameNo maker’s card

We didn’t find a savings card or cash price from Fluorescein Sodium and Benoxinate Hydrochloride’s maker. Ask the pharmacy for Fluorescein Sodium and Benoxinate Hydrochloride’s cash price. With insurance, ask what your plan charges.

Authorized genericThe NDC to ask for

The same medicine as Fluorescein Sodium and Benoxinate Hydrochloride, without the brand name. Give the pharmacy its NDC to get it.

fluorescein and benoxinate

Sold by

Bausch & LombThe company behind Fluorescein Sodium and Benoxinate Hydrochloride

Given by your care team

These eye drops are usually used in the eye doctor’s office during an exam.

NDC (for your care team)

0.3% / 0.4%drops
- 82260-734-0511-digit: 82260-0734-055 mL per bottle

Source: FDA, updated October 30, 2026

What to ask your care team

“Which version of Fluorescein Sodium and Benoxinate Hydrochloride do you use: the brand, the authorized generic? What would I pay for each?”

Brand and authorized generic labels

Official labels and ingredient lists from DailyMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine).

Fluorescein Sodium and Benoxinate Hydrochloride is sold under its generic name, so there’s no separate brand label to compare. Here’s its label.

Authorized generic package label from Bausch & Lomb — Authorized genericBausch & Lomb

See the ingredients

Active: fluorescein sodium 0.26% · benoxinate hydrochloride 0.44%

Inactive:

Boric acid
Povidone
Water

Regular genericNot sold

None is sold. The authorized generic is the only generic. Generics usually come once the brand’s patents and exclusivity end. Until then, the authorized generic is the lower-cost way to get Fluorescein Sodium and Benoxinate Hydrochloride.

See the authorized generic →

What it’s used for

Numbing and staining the eye for eye procedures

What the FDA label says

Fluorescein Sodium and Benoxinate Hydrochloride Ophthalmic Solution, 0.3%/0.4% is a combination of fluorescein sodium, a disclosing agent and benoxinate hydrochloride, a local ester anesthetic indicated for procedures in adult and pediatric patients requiring a disclosing agent in combination with a topical ophthalmic anesthetic.

Source: the FDA label for Fluorescein Sodium and Benoxinate Hydrochloride (Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.), May 12, 2025. Full label on DailyMed

Good to know

It may look different from Fluorescein Sodium and Benoxinate Hydrochloride (color, shape, or markings). That’s normal for an authorized generic.
If your prescription says “dispense as written,” the pharmacy needs your prescriber’s OK to give you the authorized generic.
Coverage depends on your plan. Your care team or insurer can tell you what you’d pay.
Don’t stop or change a medicine without talking to your pharmacist or prescriber.

Prices change: confirm with the pharmacy before you fill. drugalt.com/drug/fluorescein-sodium-and-benoxinate-hydrochloride/