Medications not yet evaluated by P&T are considered NON-FORMULARY. Always check 2 unique patient identifiers - NAME and DATE OF BIRTH - at every step! Please be sure to document all clinical activities daily.
Outpatient Medical (Adults): May interchange to the most cost effective intravenous iron product at an equivalent elemental dose. The prescriber should be notified of any interchange.
Iron sucrose (Venofer) is the formulary workhorse intravenous iron agent for inpatients.
Dialysis Outpatients (unattached patients): Venofer preferred.
Outpatient Medical (Adults): May interchange to the most cost effective intravenous iron product at an equivalent elemental dose. The prescriber should be notified of any interchange.
For Updated Formulary Preferred Products (Inpatient and Outpatient): Preferred Products for Select Agents
Reviewed: October 26, 2005
Updated: July 2021 (Therapeutic Interchange of IV iron), February 2026