Compiled from public FDA, CMS, DailyMed, NADAC, and related drug data sources. Editorial policy
🆔 Identity & classification
FDA NDC (as labeled)0944-2850-01
Product NDC0944-2850
11-digit billing NDC00944285001
NCPDP billing unitML — per mL (volume)
Application #BLA125596
SPL Set ID9aad7ec9-6097-4805-8f1b-898bec35f218
Established class (EPC)Human Immunoglobulin G
Mechanism of actionAntigen Neutralization
Physiologic effectPassively Acquired Immunity
Chemical classImmunoglobulins
DEA scheduleNon-controlled
Marketing categoryBLA
Marketing statusOn market
FDA listing statusListed (active directory)
Marketing start2016-10-18
RouteSUBCUTANEOUS
Dosage formINJECTION, SOLUTION
SubstanceHUMAN IMMUNOGLOBULIN G
GPI-1419100020202050
GPI classCuvitru
GCN Seq No076632
GCN42328
HICL code041796
Ingredient (HICL)Immun Glob G(Igg)/Gly/Iga Ov50
HIC1 codeW
Therapeutic class — broad (HIC1)Anti-Infecting Agents
HIC2 codeW7
Therapeutic class — intermediate (HIC2)Biologicals
HIC3 codeW7K
Therapeutic class — specific (HIC3)Antisera
AHFS code80:04.00.00
AHFS classAntitoxins And Immune Globulins
FDB label nameCUVITRU 1 GRAM/5 ML VIAL
FDB brand nameCuvitru
Legend statusF — Federal legend — prescription drug or device
Biologic (Purple Book)351(a)
Why two NDCs?
The FDA registers this code as 0944-2850-01 — a 4-4-2 layout, and that's what's printed on the package and shown on DailyMed. For insurance claims, every NDC is standardized to a uniform 11-digit 5-4-2 format by adding a zero to the labeler segment → 00944-2850-01. Same drug, same package — only the format differs.
Where does this data come from?
Identifiers from the FDA openFDA NDC Directory and Structured Product Labeling; RxCUI from RxNorm (NLM); GPI from Medi-Span; GCN / HIC / AHFS / legend from First Databank.
The labeler markets the product; the application holder owns the FDA approval. They’re often the same company but can differ (e.g. a repackager or an authorized generic). A mailing address / phone appears here when the manufacturer includes it in the product’s FDA label (not all do).
Where does this data come from?
Labeler, application holder and registered establishment from the FDA openFDA NDC Directory and Drugs@FDA; address/contact from the product’s FDA label.
🩺 Clinical
Label name CUVITRU 1 GRAM/5 ML VIALIngredient Immun Glob G(Igg)/Gly/Iga Ov50
📗 Our plain-language guide HelloPharmacist
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How is it given, and how often will I need infusions?
Plain-language summary from MedlinePlus (U.S. National Library of Medicine); supplement & herbal interactions and nutrient depletion data from the Natural Medicines database; our full guide is HelloPharmacist editorial content.
💬 Questions about Immune Globulin Subcutaneous (Human)?
Ask a licensed pharmacist directly — free, answered by our team.
Inactive ingredients, also called excipients, are components of the drug product
other than the active ingredient. They may include fillers, dyes, coatings, preservatives, flavors,
or other formulation ingredients.
💡 Tap an ingredient (hover on desktop) to see what it is and why it’s used.
UNII TE7660XO1C
Glycine is an amino acid used in medicines as a buffer to help stabilize pH and improve taste. It may also serve as a filler or binder to give the product proper form and consistency.
1 inactive ingredient listed in the exact product block matched to this NDC.
Where does this data come from?
Data sourced from official FDA Structured Product Labeling (SPL) via DailyMed — ingredient classCode="IACT" elements from the exact product block matched by this NDC. Label-section narrative from DailyMed / the openFDA label index is shown separately when available.
Inactive ingredient FAQ
Are inactive ingredients the same for every manufacturer?
No. Inactive ingredients can differ by manufacturer, dosage form, strength, and package / product version.
Why might an inactive ingredient be missing?
Some SPLs do not provide a complete structured inactive-ingredient list, and older or unusual labels may only include the information in narrative text.
Can inactive ingredients matter?
Yes. They can matter for allergies, intolerances, dyes, gluten / lactose concerns, preservatives, and formulation differences — but confirm with a pharmacist or the manufacturer when it’s clinically important.
💲 Pricing
A drug doesn't have one price. Each row is a different public payment system, and none is what you'd pay at the counter — that depends on your insurance. The ⓘ on each row explains what it measures.
Price system
Per mL
Per package
Retail pharmacies payNADAC · weekly
Not in the retail survey — common for institutional, discontinued, or low-volume packs.
Medicaid paysCMS SDUD · 12 mo
$40.22
$201.12 / 5 ml
Medicare drug plans payPart D · quarterly
No Part D plan price is available for this NDC in our data.
Medicare Part B allowsASP · J1555
$18.147 / J1555 unit
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Where does this data come from?
NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost) is the CMS weekly pharmacy-acquisition-cost survey — what pharmacies pay. ASP (Average Sales Price) is the CMS Medicare Part B drug-payment file, published quarterly. Medicaid pays is computed by us from CMS State Drug Utilization Data (total reimbursed ÷ units, trailing 12 months) — gross of rebates and inclusive of dispensing fees, so it reflects what Medicaid paid, not an acquisition cost. Medicare drug plans pay is the median negotiated point-of-sale unit cost across plans listing this NDC in the CMS quarterly Prescription Drug Plan pricing files, before rebates. The VA pays is the federal contract price (FSS, and the statutory Big 4 ceiling where listed) from the VA National Acquisition Center pharmaceutical price file. All are free public government data; each measures a different payer, so the figures are not directly comparable.
🧾 Billing & reimbursement
FDA NDC (as labeled)0944-2850-01
11-digit billing NDC00944-2850-01
Format4-4-2 as registered → padded to 5-4-2 for billing (zero added to the labeler segment)
Crosswalk sourcePDAC NDC-HCPCS crosswalk (DME MAC / DMEPOS)
Where does this data come from?
The HCPCS J-code crosswalk comes from the CMS ASP NDC-HCPCS crosswalk and the DMEPDAC (DME MAC) NDC-HCPCS crosswalk — free public CMS data. Billing units are derived from the code’s descriptor and the package amount.
About this product: this is a biologic. Biologics don't have small-molecule generics — competition comes from FDA-licensed biosimilars (shown above), not generics.
Where does this data come from?
Equivalents are other NDCs of the same ingredient, form and route from the openFDA NDC Directory, ranked least-expensive-first by NADAC. Therapeutic-equivalence (AB) ratings come from the FDA Orange Book; biologics use the FDA Purple Book for biosimilar & interchangeable status.
⏳ Availability & biosimilar status
🏛️
2016
First FDA approval
Sep 2016
📍
2026
Currently FDA-listed
10 years listed
🛡️
2028
Latest patent/protection listed
not a guaranteed launch date
🧬Biologic — competition comes from biosimilars
Biologics have no small-molecule generics; biosimilar competition is tracked in the FDA Purple Book.
🛡️ Latest patent/protection date listed: FDA patent/protection data lists protections through Sep 2028. This may affect when biosimilars become widely available, but it is not a guaranteed launch date.
📅 FDA approved Sep 13, 2016⏳ ~2 yr to latest listed protection
Why the date isn’t exact: Biosimilar timing can change because patents may be challenged, settled, licensed, added or removed, and litigation can move the real date earlier or later.
FDA Purple Book — biosimilars & interchangeables
ⓘ
🔒 No FDA-licensed biosimilars or interchangeable biosimilars are listed yet for this biologic. It currently has no biosimilar competition in the FDA Purple Book.
Source: FDA Purple Book (purplebooksearch.fda.gov), matched on the reference product’s active ingredient.
Patents & exclusivity — FDA Purple Book
Exclusivity RefProduct
2016201820202022202420262028
Today
LOE
Biologic patentExclusivity
🏛️Reference-product exclusivity
A flat 12 years of FDA market protection from first licensure. No biosimilar can be licensed before it ends — regardless of patents.
🧪Listed biologic patents
Patents the reference maker lists covering the molecule, formulation, or manufacturing. A biosimilar generally can’t launch until these resolve.
🔁Interchangeability
An interchangeable biosimilar may be substituted at the pharmacy (state laws vary). The first one can earn its own exclusivity period.
🛈 What do these terms mean?
Biologic patent
A patent the reference product’s maker has publicly listed. A biosimilar generally can’t launch until these expire — unless they’re invalidated or resolved in a settlement.
Reference-product exclusivity
A flat 12 years of FDA market protection from the biologic’s first licensure (the BPCIA). No biosimilar can be licensed before it ends, regardless of patents.
Interchangeable exclusivity
The first interchangeable biosimilar can earn a period as the only interchangeable version (pharmacists can substitute it without the prescriber).
Earliest biosimilar (LOE)
The latest of all the dates above — the soonest a biosimilar can realistically reach the market. Litigation and settlements can move it earlier.
Biologics have no small-molecule “generics” — competition comes from FDA-licensed biosimilars, tracked in the FDA Purple Book.
FDA exclusivity
Code
What it grants
Expires
RefProduct
Reference-product exclusivity (12-year, BPCIA) — no biosimilar can be licensed before this date
Sep 13, 2028
Common questions
Is there a biosimilar for CUVITRU 1 GRAM/5 ML VIAL?
No FDA-licensed biosimilar is currently listed for this biologic in the FDA Purple Book.
Why do different websites show different biosimilar dates?
Biosimilar availability isn’t based on one single date. Some sources use the reference-product exclusivity, some use the last listed patent, and patent litigation, settlements, and licenses can all change the real-world launch date. This page shows the underlying Purple Book dates so you can see why estimates differ.
Can a biosimilar launch before the last patent expires?
Sometimes. A biosimilar maker may settle with the reference manufacturer or receive a license to launch earlier. In other cases, the last listed protection delays competition.
What does “current Purple Book estimate” mean?
It means we’re using the latest patent and exclusivity dates currently listed in the FDA Purple Book. It is not a guaranteed launch date.
What does “FDA listed” mean?
It means the product appears in the FDA’s official directory. That’s a good sign a product exists for the U.S. market, but on its own it does not confirm a pharmacy can get it today. Where we have recent retail pricing data, we label it “Availability likely” instead.
What does a patent or protection date mean here?
It’s the latest date currently listed in the FDA Purple Book for a patent or exclusivity on the reference biologic. It can affect when a biosimilar becomes widely available — but it is not a guaranteed launch date. Settlements and licenses can move the real date earlier or later.
Built from the FDA Purple Book Patent List (patents the reference-product sponsor has publicly listed under the BPCIA) plus reference-product exclusivity. Biosimilars cannot launch until these clear; patent litigation and settlements can shift the real date. Biologics have no small-molecule generics — competition comes from FDA-licensed biosimilars, not the Orange Book.
Where does this data come from?
Patents and exclusivity from the FDA Purple Book (biologics), refreshed from public FDA data. Biosimilar launch timing is an estimate, not a guarantee.
🗺️ Medicaid utilization & spend
📍 This exact package only: Medicaid data is reported per full 11-digit NDC — labeler, product and pack size — so every number here is for 00944-2850-01, not the drug overall. Other pack sizes report separately.
💊 Pharmacy benefit only: These are Medicaid outpatient pharmacy claims, billed by NDC. They exclude the medical benefit — clinic- or hospital-administered drugs billed under HCPCS J-codes — so drugs used mostly that way (e.g. Avastin, Lucentis, Keytruda) can look low or missing here. That’s expected, not an error.
📅 Q1 2025 – Q4 2025 · 4 quarters of data
ⓘ The newest quarter is usually incomplete when first published; states restate recent quarters in later CMS releases, so the latest figures typically revise upward. State coverage-policy changes can also shift quarter-to-quarter totals.
Prescriptions last 4 qtrs
1.7K
Units reimbursed last 4 qtrs
75.4K
Gross reimbursed last 4 qtrs
$3.03M
Avg / prescription
$1,753.23
Avg / unit
$40.2250
Latest quarter Q4 2025
370Rx
Fee-for-service vs managed care ⓘ
35% FFS65% MCO
Fee-for-service · 598 Rx Managed care · 1,131 Rx
State Medicaid map
Units reimbursed · per 100k residents
4.0171
gray = no data reported ⓘ
Colors are per 100,000 residents, so big states don’t automatically dominate. Tap or hover a state for its actual totals.
Tap or hover a state
…for its Medicaid breakdown
Prescriptions—
Units—
Reimbursed—
🏆 Top states by units · per 100k residents
1Massachusetts171 /100k
2Colorado135 /100k
3Nebraska121 /100k
4North Carolina99.0 /100k
5Missouri81.9 /100k
6Alabama75.8 /100k
7New York48.4 /100k
8Louisiana44.4 /100k
National units — by quarter
💵 About the dollar figures: “reimbursed” is what Medicaid paid pharmacies before confidential manufacturer rebates, so the program’s real net cost is lower than these numbers. Fee-for-service and managed-care claims are combined unless split above. Source: CMS State Drug Utilization Data; per-100k rates use 2023 Census population estimates.
💊 Medicaid utilization by pack size
Medicaid (SDUD) totals over the four most recent reported quarters for every package size of this drug — handy when a specific package (e.g. a starter/titration pack) carries little or no Medicaid volume on its own.
Drug total (last 4 qtrs): 8,891 Rx · 724,722 units · $28,944,187 gross reimbursed
Tap a pack size to open its page. Source: CMS State Drug Utilization Data, last 4 quarters.
📊 Medicare Part D spend CMS · PART D · 2026 (Q1)
Medicare Part D (outpatient prescription) spending for Cuvitru — the program that covers self-administered drugs. 1 manufacturer.
⚠️ Drug-level data: CMS publishes Part D spending by drug, not by NDC — these figures combine every manufacturer, strength and package size sold under the name Cuvitru. That’s a different level of aggregation than the Medicaid card above, which is specific to this exact 11-digit NDC (pack size included), so the two aren’t directly comparable.
Period
Total Part D spend
$17.37M
Claims incl. refills
2.2K
Beneficiaries
548
Spend / beneficiary
$31,704.74
Spend / claim
$8,010.23
Trend by period
💵 About the dollar figures: spending is what Part D plans paid before confidential manufacturer rebates, so the program’s real net cost is lower. A blank patient count means fewer than 11 people — CMS hides counts that small to protect privacy. Source: CMS Medicare Quarterly Part D Spending by Drug (data.cms.gov), updated quarterly.
📦 Packaging — all sizes for this product
Package NDC
Description
Marketing start
Status
00944-2850-01 You're viewing this
1 VIAL, SINGLE-USE in 1 CARTON (0944-2850-01) / 5 mL in 1 VIAL, SINGLE-USE (0944-2850-02)
1 BOTTLE, GLASS in 1 CARTON (0944-2850-09) / 50 mL in 1 BOTTLE, GLASS (0944-2850-10)
2016-10-18
Active
This pack accounts for about 19% of this product's recent Medicaid fills; the largest share goes to a different pack size. See all packs ↓
Pack size FAQ
What quantity is in NDC 00944-2850-01?
NDC 00944-2850-01 is listed by the FDA — 1 vial, single-use in 1 carton / 5 ml in 1 vial, single-use.
What NDC number is used to bill for this package of CUVITRU Immune Globulin Subcutaneous (Human) 200 mg/mL Injection, Solution?
Bill NDC 00944-2850-01 — the 11-digit billing format is 00944285001. Pharmacy and medical claims use the 11-digit form; the FDA label may print a shorter form of the same code.
🧭 About this NDC listing & data coverage
What data is (and isn’t) available for this NDC — tap to expand
NDC identity (package / product / labeler codes)
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Labeler
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Product & package description
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Active ingredient / dosage form / route
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FDA label (SPL via DailyMed)
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Inactive ingredients (structured)
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NADAC pharmacy acquisition price (CMS)
— Not published for this NDCCMS publishes NADAC only for NDCs reported in its retail-pharmacy survey.
Orange Book / therapeutic-equivalence data
✓ Available
HCPCS J-code billing crosswalk
✓ Available
Medicaid utilization (CMS SDUD)
✓ Available
“Not published” reflects what the public FDA / CMS / NLM sources provide for this exact package code — it is a property of the data feeds, not a judgment about the product.
Questions about this listing
Why is there no price listed?
The pricing shown on our NDC pages comes from CMS NADAC, a voluntary survey of retail community pharmacy invoices. CMS does not publish a NADAC for every NDC — packages outside the retail survey (institutional and hospital products, bulk packages, discontinued items, and many OTC items) may never receive one. A missing price reflects the survey's scope, not this product's actual cost, and does not mean the product is free or unavailable.
Is the NDC printed on the package the same as the 11-digit billing NDC?
Yes, they identify this exact package in different formats. The FDA registers it as 0944-2850-01, which is what is printed on the packaging and shown on DailyMed. Insurance claims use a fixed 11-digit 5-4-2 format, so the short segment is padded with a leading zero: 00944-2850-01, written without dashes as 00944285001. The Identity section at the top of this page lists every form of this code.
What do the three segments of this NDC mean?
In 00944-2850-01, the first segment (00944) is the labeler code FDA assigned to Takeda Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.; the middle segment (2850) identifies this specific product — its ingredient, strength, and dosage form; and the last segment (01) identifies this exact package size and type. Together they name one specific package of one specific product.
Is this package still being marketed?
Yes, per the latest FDA NDC Directory data on this page: this package is listed as actively marketed, with no marketing end date reported by Takeda Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.. Listing status can change — the directory data on this page refreshes weekly.
Does this product come in other package sizes?
Yes — the FDA directory lists 4 other package presentations of this same product, including 1 vial (00944-2850-03), 1 vial (00944-2850-05), 1 vial (00944-2850-07). Each has its own NDC and its own page — see the package list near the top of this page.
Who lists this product with the FDA?
Takeda Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. is the labeler of record for this NDC — the company under whose FDA-assigned code the package is listed. The labeler may be the manufacturer itself or a distributor marketing the product under its own code.
Does this product have a billing J-code?
Yes — this NDC cross-references HCPCS code J1555 for medical-claim billing (typically used when a product is administered in a clinical setting rather than dispensed at a retail pharmacy). See the Billing section on this page.
This page identifies an FDA-listed package (the NDC) and reports public regulatory and pricing data about the listing. It is reference information, not a medical recommendation — talk to your pharmacist or prescriber about your own medication.
Where does this data come from?
Listing facts (marketing category, packager status, marketing dates) from the FDA openFDA NDC Directory; label availability from DailyMed; pricing coverage from CMS NADAC; equivalence scope from the FDA Orange Book.
📄 Full FDA label FDA SPL
The complete FDA label for this product, verbatim, section by section. Jump with a chip, search within the label, or expand everything.
For educational and professional reference only — not medical advice. Pricing reflects published
NADAC and CMS ASP (free public data) and may differ from your acquisition cost; always verify before billing or dispensing.