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Mercaptopurine 20 MG/ML Oral Suspension — RxCUI 1536484

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 1536484 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 4 FDA products 4 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

RxCUI1536484
Official nameMercaptopurine 20 MG/ML Oral Suspension
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asmercaptopurine 20 MG per 1 ML Oral Suspension; mercaptopurine 20 MG in 1 mL Oral Suspension; mercaptopurine 100 MG per 5 ML Oral Suspension; mercaptopurine 2000 MG per 100 ML Oral Suspension
FDA products mapped4
Package NDCs mapped4
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)3,230 prescriptions · 23 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Mercaptopurine 20 MG/ML Oral Suspension 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 Mercaptopurine 20 MG/ML Oral Suspension RxCUI 1536484

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.

    • Mercaptopurine 103
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Purixan 1536485
  3. Dose forms 9

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

    • Mercaptopurine Oral Suspension 1536483
    • Mercaptopurine Oral Liquid Product 1536482
    • Mercaptopurine Oral Product 1165710
    • Mercaptopurine Oral Suspension [Purixan] 1536487
    • Purixan Oral Liquid Product 1536488
    • Purixan Oral Product 1536489
    • Oral Suspension 316969
    • Oral Liquid Product 1151137
    • +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

  • Mercaptopurine 20 MG/ML SCDC · 1536481
  • Mercaptopurine Oral Suspension SCDF · 1536483
  • Mercaptopurine Oral Liquid Product SCDG · 1536482
  • Mercaptopurine Oral Product SCDG · 1165710

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Mercaptopurine 20 MG/ML Oral Suspension [Purixan] SBD · 1536490
  • Mercaptopurine 20 MG/ML [Purixan] SBDC · 1536486
  • Mercaptopurine Oral Suspension [Purixan] SBDF · 1536487
  • Purixan Oral Liquid Product SBDG · 1536488
  • Purixan Oral Product SBDG · 1536489
  • Purixan BN · 1536485

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

4 products · 4 package NDCs
4 package NDCs map to RxCUI 1536484 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
00054-0879-49 1 BOTTLE, GLASS in 1 CARTON (0054-0879-49) / 100 mL in 1 BO... MERCAPTOPURINE Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. 2025-06-16
00054-4582-49 1 BOTTLE, GLASS in 1 CARTON (0054-4582-49) / 100 mL in 1 BO... MERCAPTOPURINE Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. 2025-02-26
62484-0020-02 1 BOTTLE in 1 CARTON (62484-0020-2) / 100 mL in 1 BOTTLE (6... PURIXAN Nova Laboratories, Ltd 2014-04-28
62484-1020-04 1 BOTTLE in 1 CARTON (62484-1020-4) / 100 mL in 1 BOTTLE (6... MERCAPTOPURINE Nova Laboratories, Ltd 2025-09-08
Observed labelers: Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. (2) · Nova Laboratories, Ltd (2) — 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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