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Methylprednisolone 500 MG Injection — RxCUI 1743720

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 1743720 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 8 FDA products 10 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

RxCUI1743720
Official nameMethylprednisolone 500 MG Injection
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asmethylprednisolone (as methylprednisolone sodium succinate) 500 MG Injection; methylPREDNISolone sodium succinate 500 MG Injection
FDA products mapped8
Package NDCs mapped10
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)121,368 prescriptions · 52 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Methylprednisolone 500 MG Injection 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 Methylprednisolone 500 MG Injection RxCUI 1743720

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.

    • Methylprednisolone 6902
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Solu-Medrol 203856
  3. Dose forms 6

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

    • Methylprednisolone Injection 1743703
    • Methylprednisolone Injectable Product 1163486
    • Methylprednisolone Injection [Solu-Medrol] 1743706
    • Solu-Medrol Injectable Product 1184840
    • Injection 1649574
    • Injectable Product 1151126
  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

  • Methylprednisolone 500 MG SCDC · 1743719
  • Methylprednisolone Injection SCDF · 1743703
  • Methylprednisolone Injectable Product SCDG · 1163486

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Methylprednisolone 500 MG Injection [Solu-Medrol] SBD · 1743722
  • Methylprednisolone 500 MG [Solu-Medrol] SBDC · 1743721
  • Methylprednisolone Injection [Solu-Medrol] SBDF · 1743706
  • Solu-Medrol Injectable Product SBDG · 1184840
  • Solu-Medrol BN · 203856

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

8 products · 10 package NDCs
10 package NDCs map to RxCUI 1743720 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
00009-0003-02 1 VIAL in 1 CARTON (0009-0003-02) / 4 mL in 1 VIAL SOLU-MEDROL Pharmacia & Upjohn Company LLC 1959-04-02
00009-0018-20 1 VIAL in 1 CARTON (0009-0018-20) / 8 mL in 1 VIAL SOLU-MEDROL Pharmacia & Upjohn Company LLC 1959-04-02
00009-0039-28 25 VIAL in 1 CARTON (0009-0039-28) / 1 mL in 1 VIAL (0009-0... SOLU-MEDROL Pharmacia & Upjohn Company LLC 1959-04-02
00009-0039-32 25 VIAL in 1 CARTON (0009-0039-32) / 1 mL in 1 VIAL (0009-0... SOLU-MEDROL Pharmacia & Upjohn Company LLC 1959-04-02
00009-0047-22 25 VIAL in 1 CARTON (0009-0047-22) / 2 mL in 1 VIAL (0009-0... SOLU-MEDROL Pharmacia & Upjohn Company LLC 1959-04-02
00009-0047-26 25 VIAL in 1 CARTON (0009-0047-26) / 2 mL in 1 VIAL (0009-0... SOLU-MEDROL Pharmacia & Upjohn Company LLC 1959-04-02
00009-0698-01 1 VIAL in 1 CARTON (0009-0698-01) / 16 mL in 1 VIAL SOLU-MEDROL Pharmacia & Upjohn Company LLC 1959-04-02
00009-0758-01 1 VIAL in 1 CARTON (0009-0758-01) / 8 mL in 1 VIAL SOLU-MEDROL Pharmacia & Upjohn Company LLC 1959-04-02
00009-0850-01 1 VIAL in 1 CARTON (0009-0850-01) / 30.6 mL in 1 VIAL SOLU-MEDROL Pharmacia & Upjohn Company LLC 2019-12-06
51662-1483-01 1 VIAL in 1 CARTON (51662-1483-1) / 4 mL in 1 VIAL SOLU-MEDROL(R) METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINAT HF Acquisition Co LLC, DBA HealthFirst 2019-12-14
Observed labelers: Pharmacia & Upjohn Company LLC (9) · HF Acquisition Co LLC, DBA HealthFirst (1) — 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.
CodeDescriptorMapped packagesSources
J2919 Inj, methylpred sod succ 5mg 9 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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