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Loteprednol etabonate 0.005 MG/MG Ophthalmic Ointment [Lotemax] — RxCUI 1099503

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic branded drug
RxCUI 1099503 Semantic branded drug · SBD ● Current RxNorm concept 1 FDA product 2 package NDCs Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

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What you’re looking at: the standardized identity of one medicine, as the U.S. drug-data system sees it. Below — every FDA-listed product, package code, price benchmark, and billing code that maps to it.

🗂️ Key Facts

RxCUI1099503
Official nameLoteprednol etabonate 0.005 MG/MG Ophthalmic Ointment [Lotemax]
Concept typeSemantic branded drug (SBD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asLotemax 0.5 % Ophthalmic Ointment; Lotemax 0.005 MG/MG Ophthalmic Ointment
FDA products mapped1
Package NDCs mapped2
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)1,814 prescriptions · 13 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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Our pharmacist-built guide to Loteprednol Etabonate: what it is, how it’s used, side effects, and interactions.

📗 Our plain-language guide HelloPharmacist
  • It depends on which product you've been given. Some versions — like Alrex — treat seasonal eye allergies. Eysuvis is used short-term for dry eye disease. Others, like Inveltys and...
  • What is loteprednol etabonate actually used for?
  • Always wash your hands before touching your eyes or the bottle. Shake the bottle as directed — the shaking instructions are slightly different for each product, so check your label...
  • That depends on your condition and which product you're using. For post-surgical use, most products are used for the first two weeks after surgery. Eysuvis for dry eye is approved...
📖 Read our full Loteprednol Etabonate guide →

🕸️ Concept Web — How Loteprednol etabonate 0.005 MG/MG Ophthalmic Oin... Connects

One RxCUI never lives alone. Follow the path from the raw ingredient down to the exact strength-and-form concepts FDA products carry — every stop is a real RxNorm concept with its own identifier. Hover or focus any chip for what it means.
This page's concept Loteprednol etabonate 0.005 MG/MG Ophthalmic Ointment [Lotemax] RxCUI 1099503

Every web starts here: one RxCUI, one fixed meaning in the RxNorm vocabulary.

  1. Ingredients 1

    The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.

    • Loteprednol etabonate 52177
  2. Brand names 1

    The same medicine's trade names. A brand name alone says nothing about strength or form.

    • Lotemax 218087
  3. Dose forms 6

    The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.

    • Loteprednol etabonate Ophthalmic Ointment 1099499
    • Loteprednol etabonate Ophthalmic Product 1163869
    • Loteprednol etabonate Ophthalmic Ointment [Lotemax] 1099502
    • Lotemax Ophthalmic Product 1180895
    • Ophthalmic Ointment 91344
    • Ophthalmic Product 1151135
  4. Clinical & branded drugs 3

    Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 11 of 11 stored related concepts drawn.
These are official RxNorm vocabulary relationships — how concepts name and organize the same medicine. They do not establish therapeutic equivalence or substitutability: two concepts appearing in one web is never a statement that products can be swapped.

🔀 Generic ⇄ Brand Crosswalk

The same medicine has an unbranded (generic) identity and one or more brand-name identities — each with its own RxCUI. This is a naming relationship in RxNorm, not a statement that any two products are substitutable.

Generic (Clinical) Concepts

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Loteprednol etabonate 0.005 MG/MG [Lotemax] SBDC · 1099501
  • Loteprednol etabonate Ophthalmic Ointment [Lotemax] SBDF · 1099502
  • Lotemax Ophthalmic Product SBDG · 1180895
  • Lotemax BN · 218087

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

1 product · 2 package NDCs
2 package NDCs map to RxCUI 1099503 in the current snapshot — up to 50 per page. Each linked NDC opens its full package page.
Package NDC Package Brand / generic name Labeler Marketing start
24208-0443-01 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (24208-443-01) / 1 g in 1 TUBE Lotemax Bausch & Lomb Incorporated 2011-04-15
24208-0443-35 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (24208-443-35) / 3.5 g in 1 TUBE Lotemax Bausch & Lomb Incorporated 2011-04-15
Observed labelers: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated (2) — this is the FDA-listed mapping footprint, not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

💲 Pricing (NADAC)

NADAC is CMS's National Average Drug Acquisition Cost — roughly what pharmacies pay to buy the drug. It is an acquisition benchmark, not your copay.
Per gm · median
$99.7603
Range $99.7603–$99.7603 · middle 50% $99.7603–$99.7603 · 1 NDCs
Latest compatible distributions from the CMS NADAC file · dataset watermark 2026-07-10. Prices vary by package and pharmacy; a distribution is shown instead of one misleading number. Rows the dataset is silent on carry no price. No zero-cost conclusion should be drawn.

🗃️ Sources & Limits

Atlas generation902fddb9-e9c1-4004-bf4c-dba4d51037c7
openFDA export observedJul 14, 2026
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Methodology2026-07-full-catalog-v1
  • A shared RxCUI does not prove interchangeability. Products mapped to the same concept are not thereby equivalent or substitutable — equivalence is a separate, product-level determination.
  • Listing here does not establish approval or coverage. Appearing in this snapshot is a data observation, not an FDA approval status or a payer coverage decision.
  • Missing data never means zero. A silent dataset (no price, no billing code, no utilization) means no observation — not that the real-world value is zero.
  • Counts describe the mapping footprint. Product, package, and labeler counts are the FDA-listed mapping footprint in this snapshot — not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.
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