Pulmicort Flexhaler savings card: $20 or less a prescription with commercial insurance

How to pay the least

Ask for the cash price

Pulmicort Flexhaler

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.

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

Compare every option

Brand namePulmicort Flexhaler

Authorized genericbudesonide

Regular genericbudesonide

What you’d pay

Cash priceAsk the pharmacy

Not soldThere isn’t one

Other forms onlyAsk your doctor

Same as the brand?

The original

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Brand nameThe maker’s card

PULMICORT FLEXHALER Savings Card

Savings card from Rubicon Holdings

No insuranceNeeds insuranceNo cash price listed.

Insurance $20 or less a prescription

The card takes up to $50 a fill off your co-pay.

Or call 1-844-728-3479.

In the maker’s words

“Pay No More Than $20 for each prescription…”

From the maker’s offer on rubiconpharm.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 Pulmicort Flexhaler itself, from the same company, sold without the brand name, and usually for less. For now Pulmicort Flexhaler 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

Asthma

What the FDA label says

PULMICORT FLEXHALER is a corticosteroid indicated for:

Maintenance treatment of asthma as prophylactic therapy in adult and pediatric patients six years of age or older

Limitations of Use:

Not indicated for the relief of acute bronchospasm

Source: the FDA label for Pulmicort Flexhaler (Rubicon Holdings Inc.), September 4, 2025. Full label on DailyMed

Good to know

“Commercial insurance” means a plan from a job, from the marketplace, or one you buy yourself. A retiree plan that’s part of Medicare counts as Medicare. Co-pay cards can’t be used with Medicare (including Medicare Advantage), Medicaid, TRICARE or VA.
Most cards need a sign-up on the maker’s site, and many work only if your plan covers the drug. Then give the card’s details to your pharmacy.
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/pulmicort-flexhaler/