Think of Basaglar as a New BRAND of Insulin Glargine...NOT a Generic for Lantus

December 2016

You'll get requests to switch from Lantus to Basaglar (BAY-zuh-glar).

Basaglar is a new brand of glargine U-100...NOT a Lantus generic.

But Lantus will be dropped from some 2017 formularies since it costs about $370 per 5-pen box...compared to about $320 for Basaglar.

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