Injectafer vs. its authorized generic and generics

Injectafer 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

Injectafer 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 nameInjectafer

Authorized genericferric carboxymaltose

Regular genericferric carboxymaltose

What you’d pay

Cash priceAsk the pharmacyUsually the highest price

Cash priceAsk the pharmacyOften less than Injectafer

Cash priceAsk the pharmacyUsually the lowest

Same as Injectafer?

The original

Same medicine

Same active ingredientFillers and dyes can differ

Brand nameThe maker’s card

Injectafer’s maker has a savings card that lowers what you pay at the pharmacy.

Injectafer Savings Program

Savings card from American Regent

No insuranceNeeds insuranceNo cash price listed.

Insurance $50 or less a dose

The card takes up to $500 a dose off your co-pay.

Print the card (PDF)

Or call 1-877-448-4766. See the offer on injectafer.com

In the maker’s words

“Depending on insurance coverage, eligible patients may pay no more than $50 per dose for up to four doses per calendar year.”

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

Authorized genericThe NDC to ask for

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

ferric carboxymaltose

Sold by

SandozMade by American Regent, the company behind Injectafer

Given by your care team

This is given by IV at a clinic or infusion center, not picked up at a pharmacy.

NDC (for your care team)

50 mg/mLinjection
- 0781-3542-9411-digit: 00781-3542-9415 mL per single-dose vial

Source: FDA, updated October 30, 2026

What to ask your care team

“Which version of Injectafer do you use: the brand, the authorized generic or a regular 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).

Same active ingredient as Injectafer. Injectafer’s label doesn’t list its inactive ingredients, so those can’t be compared.

Injectafer package label — BrandInjectafer

Authorized generic package label from Sandoz — Authorized genericSandoz

See the ingredients

Active: ferric carboxymaltose 50 mg/mL

Regular genericWho makes it

One company sells an FDA-rated generic of Injectafer. It’s given by your care team, who choose which one to use.

Mylan Institutional50 mg/mL

How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

50 mg/mL

Package NDC
Carton of 15 mL 67457-797-15

50 mg/mL

Package NDC
Carton of 20 mL 72078-048-20

50 mg/mL

Package NDC
Carton of 2 mL 72078-060-99

Inactive ingredients: hydrochloric acid, sodium hydroxide, water
FDA label

Package	NDC
Carton of 15 mL	67457-797-15

Package	NDC
Carton of 20 mL	72078-048-20

Package	NDC
Carton of 2 mL	72078-060-99

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

Injectafer is an iron replacement product indicated for the treatment of:

iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in:
adult and pediatric patients 1 year of age and older who have either intolerance or an unsatisfactory response to oral iron.
adult patients who have non-dialysis dependent chronic kidney disease.
iron deficiency in adult patients with heart failure and New York Heart Association class II/III to improve exercise capacity.

Source: the FDA label for Injectafer (American Regent, Inc.), August 19, 2026. Full label on DailyMed

Good to know

It may look different from Injectafer (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 checked November 2, 2026. Prices change: confirm with the pharmacy before you fill. drugalt.com/drug/injectafer/