FML

Generic name: fluorometholone

Used for: Eye inflammation

How do you pay?

How to pay the least

Ask for the cash price

Generic fluorometholone

No pharmacy we check posts a price for it.

  1. Ask your pharmacy for the cash price of generic fluorometholone.Find pharmacies near you 
  2. Ask one or two other pharmacies too. Cash prices for the same generic can differ a lot from store to store.

A regular generic has the same active ingredient as FML, and the FDA requires it to work the same way.

Compare every option

Question
Brand nameFML
Authorized genericfluorometholone
Regular genericfluorometholone
What you’d pay
Cash priceAsk the pharmacyUsually the highest price
Cash priceAsk the pharmacyUsually among the lowest
Cash priceAsk the pharmacyUsually among the lowest
Same as FML?
The original
Same medicine
Same active ingredientFillers and dyes can differ

Brand nameNo maker’s card

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

Authorized genericThe NDC to ask for

The same medicine as FML, without the brand name. Give the pharmacy its NDC to get it.

fluorometholone

Sold by
  • Pacific Pharma
NDC to ask for
  • 0.1%drops
    • 60758-880-0511-digit: 60758-0880-055 mL per dropper bottle
    • 60758-880-1011-digit: 60758-0880-1010 mL per dropper bottle

Source: FDA, updated October 30, 2026

What to say at the pharmacy

“Before you fill my FML, can you tell me what I’d pay for the brand, for the authorized generic from Pacific Pharma (NDC 60758-880-05), and for a regular generic?”

Paying cash? Ask for each one’s cash price. With insurance, ask what your plan charges for each.

Brand and authorized generic labels

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

FML doesn’t come in this strength, so there’s no brand label to compare.

Authorized genericPacific Pharma
See the ingredients

Active: fluorometholone 0.1%

Inactive:

  • Benzalkonium chloride
  • Edetate disodium
  • Polysorbate 80
  • Polyvinyl alcohol
  • Sodium chloride
  • Sodium hydroxide
  • Dibasic sodium phosphate
  • Monobasic sodium phosphate
  • Water

Regular genericWho makes it

2 companies sell a generic of FML that the FDA rates a substitute. A pharmacy fills whichever one it stocks. To get a certain maker, ask for it by name; most pharmacies can order it in a day or two.

  • Amneal Pharmaceuticals0.1%
    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    0.1% White to off-white homogenous suspension

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 5 mL60219-1585-3

    0.1% White to off-white homogenous suspension

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 10 mL60219-1586-6

    Inactive ingredients: benzalkonium chloride, edetate disodium, polysorbate 80, polyvinyl alcohol, sodium chloride, sodium phosphate, dibasic, sodium phosphate, monobasic, sodium hydroxide, water

    FDA label

  • Sandoz0.1%
    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    0.1%

    PackageNDC
    Carton of 5 mL0781-6187-75
    Carton of 10 mL0781-6187-70

    Inactive ingredients: benzalkonium chloride, edetate disodium, polysorbate 80, polyvinyl alcohol, water, sodium chloride, sodium phosphate, dibasic form, sodium phosphate, monobasic form, sodium hydroxide

    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

FML ® suspension is indicated for the treatment of corticosteroid-responsive inflammation of the palpebral and bulbar conjunctiva, cornea and anterior segment of the globe.

Source: the FDA label for FML (Allergan, Inc.), December 1, 2023. Full label on DailyMed 

Good to know

Prices change: confirm with the pharmacy before you fill. drugalt.com/drug/fml/