Coal Tar

Coal Tar on the U.S. market: products, makers and brands

How Coal Tar appears in the FDA’s National Drug Code Directory — including its dosage forms, strengths, brand names, manufacturers, and FDA-listed product records. These are directory records, not sales or prescription volume.

21 companies list 34 Coal Tar product records with the FDA, mostly as topical cream, ointment or gel, oral solution, topical solution; the earliest marketing or approval year on record is 1995. Brand names on the directory include Psoriasin, Betatar Gel, MG 217 Psoriasis and 13 more; the rest are generics.

Share of FDA-listed product records by manufacturer — FDA National Drug Code Directory. Record counts are not sales or prescription volume.

How widely Coal Tar is used (Medicaid data)

A general measure of how commonly Coal Tar is prescribed, based on Medicaid — one of the largest public drug programs. The figure below is prescriptions filled in Q1–Q4 2025, summed across every form and brand of the drug.

Think of this as a proxy for how widely Coal Tar is used, drawn from freely available public data. Medicaid is just one program — these numbers don’t include Medicare, other government coverage, or commercial and cash-pay prescriptions, so real-world use is higher than what’s shown here.

How commonly is Coal Tar prescribed? Of the 1,601 medications we measure, Coal Tar ranks #1,452 by Medicaid prescriptions — more than 9% of them.

Source: Medicaid State Drug Utilization Data (CMS), aggregated by generic ingredient — summed across every NDC (all brands, strengths, salt forms and dosage forms) of Coal Tar, and across all states and both fee-for-service and managed-care claims. A general popularity signal; it excludes Medicare, commercial insurance and cash prescriptions, so it is not total U.S. use. Based on the 2 of 46 listed Coal Tar NDCs with Medicaid activity.

Compare Coal Tar products

A representative set of FDA-listed product records for Coal Tar — across manufacturers, strengths, and dosage forms, grouped by form with each product’s manufacturer and how the FDA approved it. The same medicine may be made and packaged by different companies, so a single drug can have many directory entries. (It’s also why a refill can look different — a new shape, color, or box — even though it contains the same medication.)

Showing 34 of 34 products — FDA National Drug Code Directory. See every product, package size and price: browse all 34 Coal Tar NDCs →

💵 What Coal Tar costs pharmacies (NADAC benchmark)

The national average invoice price pharmacies pay for the drug itself, from CMS's NADAC survey (data as of Sep 30, 2026). This is a supply-cost benchmark — not a retail price and not what you'd pay at the counter.

Source: CMS National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC), a survey of retail pharmacy invoice prices. Benchmarks shown are the range across package sizes of a representative product for each form and strength — other manufacturers' products may differ.

Coal Tar brand names

Coal Tar is sold under 16 brand names in the FDA directory — Psoriasin, Betatar Gel, MG 217 Psoriasis, X-Seb T Plus and others. A brand and its generic contain the same active ingredient; the brand name belongs to one company's product.

Who makes Coal Tar: manufacturers and labelers

21 companies list Coal Tar products with the FDA. By number of product records, the largest are Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Person and Covey, Wisconsin Pharmacal Company. Labelers include manufacturers and repackagers; the product in your bottle depends on which one your pharmacy stocks.

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