How do you pay?

How to pay the least

Ask for the cash price

Generic efavirenz, lamivudine, and tenofovir disoproxil

No pharmacy we check posts a price for it.

  1. Ask your pharmacy for the cash price of generic efavirenz, lamivudine, and tenofovir disoproxil.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 Symfi, and the FDA requires it to work the same way.

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Question
Brand nameSymfi
Authorized genericefavirenz, lamivudine, and tenofovir disoproxil
Regular genericefavirenz, lamivudine, and tenofovir disoproxil
What you’d pay
Cash priceAsk the pharmacyUsually the highest price
Not soldThere isn’t one
Cash priceAsk the pharmacyUsually the lowest
Same as Symfi?
The original
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Same active ingredientFillers and dyes can differ

Brand nameNo maker’s card

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

Authorized genericNot sold

There isn’t one. An authorized generic is Symfi itself, from the same company, sold without the brand name, and usually for less. A regular generic is sold, with the same active ingredient: ask the pharmacy for its price.

See the regular generic →

Regular genericWho makes it

One company sells a generic of Symfi 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.

It’s mostly filled by specialty pharmacies. Your prescriber’s office or insurer can tell you which one to use.

  • Laurus Labs600 mg / 300 mg / 300 mg

    Has lactose

    How it looks, what’s in it, NDCs

    600 mg / 300 mg / 300 mg White, capsule, 22 mm, marked “L65”

    PackageNDC
    Bottle of 3042385-928-30
    Bottle of 9042385-928-90

    Inactive ingredients: croscarmellose sodium, hydroxypropyl cellulose, lactose, magnesium stearate, cellulose, microcrystalline, starch, corn, polyethylene glycol 3350, polyvinyl alcohol, sodium lauryl sulfate, talc, titanium dioxide

    FDA label

Who sells it: FDA and Medicaid records, updated weekly. Each maker’s page, card and program is from its own site.

What to say at the pharmacy

“Before you fill my Symfi, can you tell me what I’d pay for the brand and for a generic?”

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

What it’s used for

What the FDA label says

SYMFI is a three-drug combination of efavirenz (EFV), a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, and lamivudine (3TC) and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF), both nucleo(t)side reverse transcriptase inhibitors and is indicated as a complete regimen for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection in adult and pediatric patients weighing at least 40 kg.

Source: the FDA label for Symfi (Viatris Specialty LLC), October 15, 2019. Full label on DailyMed 

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