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Hydrocortisone 25 MG/ML Topical Cream [Anusol HC] — RxCUI 1659445

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic branded drug
RxCUI 1659445 Semantic branded drug · SBD ● Current RxNorm concept 1 FDA product 1 package NDC Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

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🗂️ Key Facts

RxCUI1659445
Official nameHydrocortisone 25 MG/ML Topical Cream [Anusol HC]
Concept typeSemantic branded drug (SBD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asAnusol HC 2.5 % Topical Cream; Anusol HC 25 MG/ML Topical Cream
FDA products mapped1
Package NDCs mapped1
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)113 prescriptions · 1 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q3 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Hydrocortisone 25 MG/ML Topical Cream [Anusol HC... 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 Hydrocortisone 25 MG/ML Topical Cream [Anusol HC] RxCUI 1659445

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.

    • Hydrocortisone 5492
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Anusol HC 151363
  3. Dose forms 6

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

    • Hydrocortisone Topical Cream 377712
    • Hydrocortisone Topical Product 1164013
    • Hydrocortisone Topical Cream [Anusol HC] 1659443
    • Anusol HC Topical Product 1659444
    • Topical Cream 316982
    • Topical Product 1151122
  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

  • Hydrocortisone 25 MG/ML [Anusol HC] SBDC · 574115
  • Hydrocortisone Topical Cream [Anusol HC] SBDF · 1659443
  • Anusol HC Topical Product SBDG · 1659444
  • Anusol HC BN · 151363

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

1 product · 1 package NDC
1 package NDC map to RxCUI 1659445 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
65649-0401-30 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (65649-401-30) / 30 g in 1 TUBE Anusol HC Salix Pharmaceuticals, Inc 1984-06-06
Observed labelers: Salix Pharmaceuticals, Inc (1) — 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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