Folic Acid
Brand names: Folic Acid
At a glance
- Medicare prescriptions, 2024
- 691,275
- Medicare drug cost
- $4.3M
- Average cost per prescription
- $6.18
- Clinicians who prescribed it
- 21,824
Where it is prescribed
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What it is used for
Folic acid, USP is effective in the treatment of megaloblastic anemias due to a deficiency of folic acid, USP (as may be seen in tropical or nontropical sprue) and in anemias of nutritional origin, pregnancy, infancy, or childhood.
From the FDA-approved prescribing information (label dated July 2026). Full labels on DailyMed (opens in a new tab)
Who prescribes it
- Rheumatology 28.3%
- Internal Medicine 21.9%
- Family Medicine 14.2%
- Nurse Practitioners 13.7%
- Physician Assistants 4.7%
- General Practice 3.7%
- Hematology & Oncology 3.1%
- Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners 2.2%
- Geriatric Medicine 1.4%
- Neurology 1.2%
- Medical Oncology 0.9%
- Cardiology 0.8%
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Share of Medicare prescriptions written by each specialty. Select one to list its prescribers.
Trend, 2019–2024
Medicare prescriptions rose 357% from 2019 to 2024.
From CMS’s yearly state and national Part D summaries, which count every prescriber, including those CMS leaves out of its per-clinician data (fewer than 11 prescriptions). That is why these totals are higher than the count at the top of this page. Prescriptions include refills.
What it looks like
Pills from 4 makers on file. The same medicine can look different depending on who made it, so check the imprint (the letters and numbers on the pill) with your pharmacist if a refill looks different.
Blue Heron Pharmaceuticals, LLC
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 60 mg / 9 mg ferrous fumarate / 10 ug cholecalciferol / 6 ug cyanocobalamin / 400 ug folic acid / 20 mg niacinamide / 10 mg calcium pantothenate / 2 mg pyridoxine hydrochloride / 750 ug vitamin a acetate / 1.7 mg riboflavin / 1.5 mg thiamine mononitrate / 13.5 mg .alpha.-tocopherol acetate, d- / 25 mg calcium | white oval tablet, 18 mm | |
Bryant Ranch Prepack
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 1 mg | yellow round tablet, 8 mm, scored to split in 2 | ET 28 |
Remedyrepack Inc.
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 1 mg | yellow round tablet, 8 mm, scored to split in 2 | ET 28 |
Rising Pharma Holdings, Inc.
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 1 mg | yellow round tablet, 8 mm, scored to split in 2 | ET 28 |
Source: DailyMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine), from each maker’s FDA drug listing. A few makers are shown, not every one. Never take a pill you can’t identify; ask a pharmacist.
Industry payments about this drug
No industry payments to clinicians named this drug in 2025.
Recalls and shortages
Not on the FDA drug shortage list.
1 recall since 2020
- Jan 2022 · Cardinal Healthcare · Class II
CGMP Deviations: Products were exposed to temperatures outside of the products labeled storage conditions.
Recalls usually affect specific lots from one maker, not every version of a drug. Class I is the most serious; most drug recalls are Class II. FDA recalls (opens in a new tab)
Sources: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider and Drug (2024; prescriptions include refills, and CMS hides counts under 11 per prescriber); U.S. Food and Drug Administration, openFDA (drug labels, NDC directory, enforcement reports, drug shortages); CMS Open Payments 2025; ClinicalTrials.gov. General information only, not medical advice; not yet reviewed by our medical reviewer.