Nivestym

Generic name: filgrastim-aafi

Used for: Lowering the risk of infection during chemotherapy · Faster white blood cell recovery in leukemia (AML) treatment · Faster white blood cell recovery after a bone marrow transplant · Collecting your own stem cells from the blood · Low white blood cells from birth, cyclic or unexplained · 4 more

How do you pay?

How to pay the least

Ask for the cash price

Nivestym

Nivestym is a biologic. Biologics don’t have generics, but some have biosimilars or an unbranded version from the same maker. Ask your pharmacist or prescriber whether one is sold.

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

Compare every option

Question
Brand nameNivestym
Authorized genericfilgrastim-aafi
Regular genericfilgrastim-aafi
What you’d pay
Cash priceAsk the pharmacy
Not soldThere isn’t one
Not soldAsk the pharmacy
Same as Nivestym?
The original
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Brand nameThe maker’s card

Pfizer Oncology Together Co-Pay Savings Program for Injectables

Savings card from Pfizer

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

The card takes up to $4,000–$10,000 a year off your co-pay.

Sign up on pfizercopay.com 

Or call 1-800-555-4820.

In the maker’s words

“as little as $0 per administered dose.”

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

See the brand name →

Regular genericNot sold

Nivestym is a biologic. Biologics don’t have generics, but some have biosimilars or an unbranded version from the same maker. Ask your pharmacist or prescriber whether one is sold. 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

NIVESTYM is a leukocyte growth factor indicated to

  • Decrease the incidence of infection‚ as manifested by febrile neutropenia‚ in patients with nonmyeloid malignancies receiving myelosuppressive anti-cancer drugs associated with a significant incidence of severe neutropenia with fever.
  • Reduce the time to neutrophil recovery and the duration of fever, following induction or consolidation chemotherapy treatment of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
  • Reduce the duration of neutropenia and neutropenia-related clinical sequelae‚ e.g.‚ febrile neutropenia, in patients with nonmyeloid malignancies undergoing myeloablative chemotherapy followed by bone marrow transplantation (BMT).
  • Mobilize autologous hematopoietic progenitor cells into the peripheral blood for collection by leukapheresis.
  • Reduce the incidence and duration of sequelae of severe neutropenia (e.g.‚ fever‚ infections‚ oropharyngeal ulcers) in symptomatic patients with congenital neutropenia‚ cyclic neutropenia‚ or idiopathic neutropenia.

Source: the FDA label for Nivestym (Pfizer Laboratories Div Pfizer Inc), August 12, 2025. Full label on DailyMed 

Good to know

Prices checked November 2, 2026. Prices change: confirm with the pharmacy before you fill. drugalt.com/drug/nivestym/