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Apremilast 20 MG Oral Tablet — RxCUI 1492740

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 1492740 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 8 FDA products 9 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

RxCUI1492740
Official nameApremilast 20 MG Oral Tablet
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
FDA products mapped8
Package NDCs mapped9
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)68,281 prescriptions · 52 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

📖 Skip the Codes — Read It in Plain English.

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

📗 Our plain-language guide HelloPharmacist
  • It treats psoriatic arthritis, plaque psoriasis, and oral ulcers from Behçet's Disease in adults. Children 6 and older can use it for psoriatic arthritis and moderate to severe pla...
  • Take it by mouth, with or without food, and swallow the tablet whole. Otezla starts with a 5-day build-up to ease stomach side effects. Follow your prescriber's directions.
  • Diarrhea, nausea, headache, and cold-like symptoms are most common. They often show up in the first weeks and tend to improve. Call your doctor if diarrhea, nausea or vomiting is s...
  • Yes. Apremilast is linked to more depression, and weight loss can occur. Tell your doctor about mood changes or weight loss you can't explain.
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🕸️ Concept Web — How Apremilast 20 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 Apremilast 20 MG Oral Tablet RxCUI 1492740

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.

    • Apremilast 1492727
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Otezla 1492733
  3. Dose forms 9

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

    • Apremilast Oral Tablet 1492731
    • Apremilast Oral Product 1492729
    • Apremilast Pill 1492730
    • Apremilast Oral Tablet [Otezla] 1492735
    • Otezla Oral Product 1492736
    • Otezla Pill 1492737
    • 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.

  5. Packs 10

    Fixed collections of drugs packaged and sold together, like dose packs.

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 21 of 24 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

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

8 products · 9 package NDCs
9 package NDCs map to RxCUI 1492740 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
55513-0137-60 60 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (55513-137-60) Otezla Amgen, Inc 2020-02-26
55513-0137-95 1 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (55513-137-95) / 28 TABLET, FILM... Otezla Amgen, Inc 2020-02-26
55513-0369-55 1 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (55513-369-55) / 1 KIT in 1 BLIS... Otezla Amgen, Inc 2020-02-26
55513-0485-96 5 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (55513-485-96) / 1 KIT in 1 BLIS... Otezla Amgen, Inc 2020-02-26
55513-0497-60 60 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (55513-497-60) Otezla Amgen, Inc 2024-04-27
55513-0508-55 1 KIT in 1 BLISTER PACK (55513-508-55) * 51 TABLET, FILM C... Otezla Amgen, Inc 2024-04-27
55513-0516-41 1 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (55513-516-41) / 1 KIT in 1 BLIS... Otezla Amgen, Inc 2020-02-26
55513-0519-30 30 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (55513-519-30) Otezla Amgen, Inc 2025-08-31
55513-0996-95 3 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (55513-996-95) / 1 KIT in 1 BLIS... Otezla Amgen, Inc 2024-04-27
Observed labelers: Amgen, Inc (9) — 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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