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Riociguat 0.5 MG Oral Tablet — RxCUI 1439821

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 1439821 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 5 FDA products 17 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

RxCUI1439821
Official nameRiociguat 0.5 MG Oral Tablet
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
FDA products mapped5
Package NDCs mapped17
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)6,299 prescriptions · 33 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Riociguat 0.5 MG Oral Tablet 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 Riociguat 0.5 MG Oral Tablet RxCUI 1439821

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.

    • Riociguat 1439816
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Adempas 1439889
  3. Dose forms 9

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

    • Riociguat Oral Tablet 1439820
    • Riociguat Oral Product 1439818
    • Riociguat Pill 1439819
    • Riociguat Oral Tablet [Adempas] 1439891
    • Adempas Oral Product 1439892
    • Adempas Pill 1439893
    • Oral Tablet 317541
    • Oral Product 1151131
    • +1 more in this family
  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 — 13 of 14 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

  • Riociguat 0.5 MG SCDC · 1439817
  • Riociguat Oral Tablet SCDF · 1439820
  • Riociguat Oral Product SCDG · 1439818
  • Riociguat Pill SCDG · 1439819

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Riociguat 0.5 MG Oral Tablet [Adempas] SBD · 1439894
  • Riociguat 0.5 MG [Adempas] SBDC · 1439890
  • Riociguat Oral Tablet [Adempas] SBDF · 1439891
  • Adempas Oral Product SBDG · 1439892
  • Adempas Pill SBDG · 1439893
  • Adempas BN · 1439889

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

5 products · 17 package NDCs
17 package NDCs map to RxCUI 1439821 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
50419-0250-01 90 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (50419-250-01) Adempas Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2013-10-08
50419-0250-03 2 BLISTER PACK in 1 PACKAGE (50419-250-03) / 21 TABLET, FIL... Adempas Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2013-10-08
50419-0250-71 90 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (50419-250-71) Adempas Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2013-10-08
50419-0250-91 9 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (50419-250-91) Adempas Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2014-09-18
50419-0251-01 90 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (50419-251-01) Adempas Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2013-10-08
50419-0251-03 2 BLISTER PACK in 1 PACKAGE (50419-251-03) / 21 TABLET, FIL... Adempas Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2013-10-08
50419-0251-71 90 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (50419-251-71) Adempas Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2013-10-08
50419-0251-91 9 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (50419-251-91) Adempas Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2014-09-18
50419-0252-01 90 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (50419-252-01) Adempas Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2013-12-08
50419-0252-03 2 BLISTER PACK in 1 PACKAGE (50419-252-03) / 21 TABLET, FIL... Adempas Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2013-10-08
50419-0252-91 9 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (50419-252-91) Adempas Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2014-09-18
50419-0253-01 90 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (50419-253-01) Adempas Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2013-10-08
50419-0253-03 2 BLISTER PACK in 1 PACKAGE (50419-253-03) / 21 TABLET, FIL... Adempas Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2013-10-08
50419-0253-91 9 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (50419-253-91) Adempas Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2014-09-18
50419-0254-01 90 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (50419-254-01) Adempas Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2013-10-08
50419-0254-03 2 BLISTER PACK in 1 PACKAGE (50419-254-03) / 21 TABLET, FIL... Adempas Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2013-10-08
50419-0254-91 9 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (50419-254-91) Adempas Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2014-09-18
Observed labelers: Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. (17) — this is the FDA-listed mapping footprint, not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

🗃️ 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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