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Brand-name prescription medicine

Pylera

Generic name: Bismuth subcitrate potassium, metronidazole, and tetracycline hydrochloride

FDA application holder: Labs Juvise

Official data, not advice

Everything here comes from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): the NDC Directory, Drugs@FDA, the official labels and recall reports; pharmacy costs come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Each fact shows its source and date.

This page is not medical advice. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before you start, stop or switch any medicine, including a switch between a brand and a generic.

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Quick answers

What is Pylera?
Pylera is a brand name of Bismuth subcitrate potassium, metronidazole, and tetracycline hydrochloride, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 2 Pylera products in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Pylera?
Labs Juvise holds the FDA application for Pylera (NDA050786, approved September 28, 2006).
Is there a generic or store brand of Pylera?
Yes. The FDA NDC Directory lists 3 other products with the same active ingredients, strength and form as a Pylera product, 3 of them generic. Ask your pharmacist whether one is right for you.
What do pharmacies pay for Pylera?
CMS lists a National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC) for 1 Pylera strength and form (see the table below). That is what pharmacies pay to buy it, not what you pay: your price depends on your insurance and your pharmacy.
Has Pylera been recalled?
No recall linked to Pylera products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Pylera is

Each Pylera product as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, by active ingredient, strength and form, with its official label. “Same medicine, other names” counts the other products with exactly the same active ingredients, strength and form (generic versions, store brands and other brands); inactive ingredients can differ.

Bismuth subcitrate potassium, metronidazole, and tetracycline hydrochloride · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
bismuth subcitrate potassium 140 mg · metronidazole 125 mg · tetracycline hydrochloride 125 mg
capsule (oral)
Pylera 3 products, 3 companies DailyMed

Its page lists every product and company, the FDA label’s uses and boxed warning, approvals, shortages and recalls: Bismuth subcitrate potassium, metronidazole, and tetracycline hydrochloride →

FDA approval

  • NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.
FDA applications of Pylera products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
NDA050786Labs JuviseSeptember 28, 20062

What pharmacies pay (NADAC)

The National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC) is the average price U.S. retail pharmacies paid to buy one unit of a medicine (one tablet, one mL or one gram), from a monthly survey of pharmacy invoices by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). State Medicaid programs use it to pay pharmacies.

This is not the price you pay. What you pay depends on your insurance (copay or coinsurance), your pharmacy and any discounts, and pharmacies also charge for filling a prescription. Ask your pharmacist or your health plan what your price will be.

NADAC per unit for Pylera, by strength and form
Strength and formGeneric or brandPharmacies pay
bismuth subcitrate potassium 140 mg · metronidazole 125 mg · tetracycline hydrochloride 125 mg
capsule
Brand: Pylera $2.43 per capsule
Generic of the same strength and form: $3.01 per capsule

NADAC list of November 4, 2026; these prices took effect on October 21, 2026. Shown only where a package’s NDC code matches the NADAC list exactly, and only for that exact strength and form: nothing is averaged across strengths. Strengths and forms not listed here have no NADAC price.

Source: NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost) 2026, data.medicaid.gov (CMS) →

Companies that list Pylera

The company named on the package (holder, repackager or distributor), as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, with its number of Pylera products.

Recalls

No recall linked to Pylera products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports.

Sources

  1. NDC Directory (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  2. Drugs@FDA (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  3. Drug labeling (SPL, openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  4. Drug recall enforcement reports (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 27, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  5. NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost) 2026 — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), data.medicaid.gov, list of November 4, 2026, retrieved November 7, 2026

Which names get a brand page: a name the NDC Directory lists for a medicine, held by one company (the FDA application holder, or the company named on most of its products), that is not just a description, and that is not the only product of its medicine.

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