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Pemetrexed 100 MG Injection [Alimta] — RxCUI 1728079

Name: Pemetrexed 100 MG Injection [Alimta] (RxCUI 1728079)
Creator: Brian Staiger, PharmD

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic branded drug

RxCUI 1728079 Semantic branded drug · SBD ● Current RxNorm concept 2 FDA products 2 package NDCs Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

This page is curated, coded, and maintained by Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD

Compiled from public NLM RxNorm and FDA (openFDA NDC directory) data sources. Editorial policy

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

RxCUI1728079

Official namePemetrexed 100 MG Injection [Alimta]

Concept typeSemantic branded drug (SBD)

RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept

Also known asAlimta 100 MG Injection

FDA products mapped2

Package NDCs mapped2

Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)936 prescriptions · 12 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025

RxNorm release07/06/2026

Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Pemetrexed 100 MG Injection [Alimta] 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 Pemetrexed 100 MG Injection [Alimta] RxCUI 1728079 Semantic branded drug · SBD

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

Ingredients 1

The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.
- Pemetrexed 68446 IN
Brand names 1

The same medicine's trade names. A brand name alone says nothing about strength or form.
- Alimta 323879 BN
Dose forms 6

The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.
- Pemetrexed Injection 1728071 SCDF
- Pemetrexed Injectable Product 1161384 SCDG
- Pemetrexed Injection [Alimta] 1728074 SBDF
- Alimta Injectable Product 1175526 SBDG
- Injection 1649574 DF
- Injectable Product 1151126 DFG
Clinical & branded drugs 3

Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.
- Pemetrexed 100 MG Injection 1728077 SCD
- Pemetrexed 100 MG 1728076 SCDC
- Pemetrexed 100 MG [Alimta] 1728078 SBDC

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

Pemetrexed 100 MG Injection SCD · 1728077
Pemetrexed 100 MG SCDC · 1728076
Pemetrexed Injection SCDF · 1728071
Pemetrexed Injectable Product SCDG · 1161384

Brand-Name Concepts

Pemetrexed 100 MG [Alimta] SBDC · 1728078
Pemetrexed Injection [Alimta] SBDF · 1728074
Alimta Injectable Product SBDG · 1175526
Alimta BN · 323879

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

2 products · 2 package NDCs

2 package NDCs map to RxCUI 1728079 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
00002-7623-01	1 VIAL in 1 CARTON (0002-7623-01) / 20 mL in 1 VIAL	Alimta	Eli Lilly and Company	2004-02-13
00002-7640-01	1 VIAL in 1 CARTON (0002-7640-01) / 4 mL in 1 VIAL	Alimta	Eli Lilly and Company	2008-01-15

Observed labelers: Eli Lilly and Company (2) — this is the FDA-listed mapping footprint, not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

🧾 Billing Codes (HCPCS)

Medical billing codes (HCPCS "J-codes") that connect to this concept's packages — used mostly when a clinic or hospital bills for a drug it administers. Each code links to its full billing page.

Code	Descriptor	Mapped packages	Sources
J9305	Inj. pemetrexed nos 10mg	2	CMS

⚠ A crosswalk is not coverage: an NDC↔HCPCS mapping does not guarantee any payer covers or pays the code. Always verify the current payer policy before billing.

🗃️ 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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