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.
Reviewed: October 26, 2005
Updated: July 2021 (Therapeutic Interchange of IV iron), February 2026
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.
Reviewed: October 26, 2005
Updated: July 2021 (Therapeutic Interchange of IV iron), February 2026