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Microencapsulated potassium chloride 20 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet — RxCUI 1801294

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 1801294 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 71 FDA products 205 package NDCs Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

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RxCUI1801294
Official nameMicroencapsulated potassium chloride 20 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asMicroencapsulated K+ Chloride 20 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet; Microencapsulated Pot Chloride 20 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet; potassium chloride 1500 MG Microencapsulated Extended Release Oral Tablet
FDA products mapped71
Package NDCs mapped205
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)749,035 prescriptions · 52 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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  • You're right that food is the first line — bananas, potatoes, and leafy greens are all rich in potassium. But sometimes diet alone isn't enough, especially if you're taking a diure...
  • Why did my doctor prescribe potassium chloride? I thought potassium just came from bananas.
  • Yes — always take oral tablets or capsules with a meal or right after eating. Taking them on an empty stomach can irritate or even ulcerate the lining of your stomach or intestines...
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🕸️ Concept Web — How Microencapsulated potassium chloride 20 MEQ Exte... 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 Microencapsulated potassium chloride 20 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet RxCUI 1801294

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.

    • Potassium chloride 8591
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Klor-Con 217905
  3. Dose forms 9

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

    • Potassium chloride Extended Release Oral Tablet 373524
    • Potassium chloride Oral Product 1160489
    • Potassium chloride Pill 1160490
    • Potassium chloride Extended Release Oral Tablet [Klor-Con] 628957
    • Klor-Con Oral Product 1172124
    • Klor-Con Pill 1172125
    • Extended Release Oral Tablet 316945
    • 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.

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

  • Potassium chloride 20 MEQ SCDC · 316547
  • Potassium chloride Extended Release Oral Tablet SCDF · 373524
  • Potassium chloride Oral Product SCDG · 1160489
  • Potassium chloride Pill SCDG · 1160490

Brand-Name Concepts

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

71 products · 205 package NDCs
205 package NDCs map to RxCUI 1801294 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
00245-5317-01 100 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (0245-5317-01) / 1 TABLET, EXT... KLOR-CON M Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC 2019-06-21
00245-5317-10 1000 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0245-5317-10) KLOR-CON M Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC 2019-06-21
00245-5317-11 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0245-5317-11) KLOR-CON M Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC 2019-06-21
00245-5317-90 90 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0245-5317-90) KLOR-CON M Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC 2019-06-21
00245-5318-01 100 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (0245-5318-01) / 1 TABLET, EXT... KLOR-CON M Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC 2019-06-21
00245-5318-11 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0245-5318-11) KLOR-CON M Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC 2019-06-21
00245-5319-01 100 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (0245-5319-01) / 1 TABLET, EXT... KLOR-CON M Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC 2019-06-21
00245-5319-10 1000 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0245-5319-10) KLOR-CON M Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC 2019-06-21
00245-5319-11 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0245-5319-11) KLOR-CON M Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC 2019-06-21
00245-5319-15 500 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0245-5319-15) KLOR-CON M Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC 2019-06-21
00245-5319-90 90 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0245-5319-90) KLOR-CON M Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC 2019-06-21
00615-8399-05 15 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BLISTER PACK (0615-8399-05) Potassium Chloride Extended-Release NCS HealthCare of KY, LLC dba Vangard Labs 2021-05-05
00615-8399-28 28 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BLISTER PACK (0615-8399-28) Potassium Chloride Extended-Release NCS HealthCare of KY, LLC dba Vangard Labs 2025-01-10
00615-8399-39 30 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BLISTER PACK (0615-8399-39) Potassium Chloride Extended-Release NCS HealthCare of KY, LLC dba Vangard Labs 2021-05-05
00615-8400-05 15 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BLISTER PACK (0615-8400-05) Potassium Chloride Extended-Release NCS HealthCare of KY, LLC dba Vangard Labs 2021-05-06
00615-8400-28 28 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BLISTER PACK (0615-8400-28) Potassium Chloride Extended-Release NCS HealthCare of KY, LLC dba Vangard Labs 2024-05-02
00615-8400-30 6 BLISTER PACK in 1 BOX, UNIT-DOSE (0615-8400-30) / 5 TABLE... Potassium Chloride Extended-Release NCS HealthCare of KY, LLC dba Vangard Labs 2021-05-05
00615-8400-39 30 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BLISTER PACK (0615-8400-39) Potassium Chloride Extended-Release NCS HealthCare of KY, LLC dba Vangard Labs 2021-05-06
00832-5324-10 1000 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0832-5324-10) Potassium Chloride Upsher-SmithLaboratories, LLC 2019-06-21
00832-5324-11 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0832-5324-11) Potassium Chloride Upsher-SmithLaboratories, LLC 2019-06-21
00832-5325-10 1000 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0832-5325-10) Potassium Chloride Upsher-SmithLaboratories, LLC 2019-06-21
00832-5325-11 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0832-5325-11) Potassium Chloride Upsher-SmithLaboratories, LLC 2019-06-21
00832-5325-15 500 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0832-5325-15) Potassium Chloride Upsher-SmithLaboratories, LLC 2019-06-21
00904-7293-61 100 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (0904-7293-61) / 1 TABLET, EXT... Potassium Chloride Major Pharmaceuticals 2023-05-01
00904-7548-61 100 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (0904-7548-61) / 1 TABLET, EXT... Potassium Chloride Major Pharmaceuticals 2026-02-04
17856-1135-01 100 POUCH in 1 BOX, UNIT-DOSE (17856-1135-1) / 1 TABLET, EX... Potassium Chloride Extended-release Atlantic Biologicals Corp. 2021-01-30
31722-0133-01 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (31722-133-01) POTASSIUM CHLORIDE Camber Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2021-01-20
31722-0133-05 500 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (31722-133-05) POTASSIUM CHLORIDE Camber Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2021-01-20
31722-0134-01 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (31722-134-01) POTASSIUM CHLORIDE Camber Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2021-01-20
31722-0135-01 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (31722-135-01) POTASSIUM CHLORIDE Camber Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2021-01-20
31722-0135-05 500 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (31722-135-05) POTASSIUM CHLORIDE Camber Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2021-01-20
42291-0507-01 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (42291-507-01) Potassium Chloride AvKARE 2019-06-19
42291-0507-50 500 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (42291-507-50) Potassium Chloride AvKARE 2019-06-19
43386-0915-01 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (43386-915-01) Potassium Chloride Lupin Pharmaceuticals,Inc. 2016-01-21
43386-0915-10 1000 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (43386-915-10) Potassium Chloride Lupin Pharmaceuticals,Inc. 2017-01-30
43386-0917-01 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (43386-917-01) Potassium Chloride Lupin Pharmaceuticals,Inc. 2016-01-21
43386-0917-05 500 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (43386-917-05) Potassium Chloride Lupin Pharmaceuticals,Inc. 2017-01-30
43386-0917-10 1000 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (43386-917-10) Potassium Chloride Lupin Pharmaceuticals,Inc. 2017-01-30
43547-0549-10 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (43547-549-10) POTASSIUM CHLORIDE Solco Healthcare LLC 2019-04-30
43547-0549-50 500 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (43547-549-50) POTASSIUM CHLORIDE Solco Healthcare LLC 2019-04-30
43547-0550-10 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (43547-550-10) POTASSIUM CHLORIDE Solco Healthcare LLC 2019-04-30
43547-0550-11 1000 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (43547-550-11) POTASSIUM CHLORIDE Solco Healthcare LLC 2019-04-30
43547-0550-50 500 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (43547-550-50) POTASSIUM CHLORIDE Solco Healthcare LLC 2019-04-30
43547-0551-10 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (43547-551-10) POTASSIUM CHLORIDE Solco Healthcare LLC 2019-04-30
50090-3700-00 30 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (50090-3700-0) potassium chloride A-S Medication Solutions 2018-10-19
50090-3700-01 60 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (50090-3700... potassium chloride A-S Medication Solutions 2016-07-26
50090-3700-02 90 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (50090-3700... potassium chloride A-S Medication Solutions 2016-07-26
50090-5665-00 30 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (50090-5665-0) Potassium Chloride A-S Medication Solutions 2021-09-15
50090-5665-01 60 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (50090-5665-1) Potassium Chloride A-S Medication Solutions 2021-09-15
50090-5665-02 90 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (50090-5665-2) Potassium Chloride A-S Medication Solutions 2021-09-15
Observed labelers: Bryant Ranch Prepack (29) · A-S Medication Solutions (19) · Aphena Pharma Solutions - Tennessee, LLC (18) · Proficient Rx LP (12) · Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC (11) · Granules India Ltd (9) · +27 more — 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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