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Ethosuximide 250 MG Oral Capsule — RxCUI 197682

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 197682 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 7 FDA products 7 package NDCs Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

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🗂️ Key Facts

RxCUI197682
Official nameEthosuximide 250 MG Oral Capsule
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
FDA products mapped7
Package NDCs mapped7
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)45,577 prescriptions · 49 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Ethosuximide 250 MG Oral Capsule 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 Ethosuximide 250 MG Oral Capsule RxCUI 197682

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.

    • Ethosuximide 4135
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Zarontin 202981
  3. Dose forms 9

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

    • Ethosuximide Oral Capsule 372108
    • Ethosuximide Oral Product 1157374
    • Ethosuximide Pill 1157375
    • Ethosuximide Oral Capsule [Zarontin] 366240
    • Zarontin Oral Product 1187043
    • Zarontin Pill 1187044
    • Oral Capsule 316965
    • 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

  • Ethosuximide 250 MG SCDC · 315900
  • Ethosuximide Oral Capsule SCDF · 372108
  • Ethosuximide Oral Product SCDG · 1157374
  • Ethosuximide Pill SCDG · 1157375

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Ethosuximide 250 MG Oral Capsule [Zarontin] SBD · 201737
  • Ethosuximide 250 MG [Zarontin] SBDC · 565989
  • Ethosuximide Oral Capsule [Zarontin] SBDF · 366240
  • Zarontin Oral Product SBDG · 1187043
  • Zarontin Pill SBDG · 1187044
  • Zarontin BN · 202981

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

7 products · 7 package NDCs
7 package NDCs map to RxCUI 197682 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
00071-0237-24 100 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (0071-0237-24) Zarontin Parke-Davis Div of Pfizer Inc 2000-09-22
42806-0708-01 100 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (42806-708-01) Ethosuximide Epic Pharma, LLC 2021-11-12
42806-0711-01 100 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (42806-711-01) Ethosuximide Epic Pharma, LLC 2020-04-15
62135-0790-12 120 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (62135-790-12) ETHOSUXIMIDE Chartwell RX, LLC 2023-10-23
63629-8005-01 90 CAPSULE, LIQUID FILLED in 1 BOTTLE (63629-8005-1) Ethosuximide Bryant Ranch Prepack 2019-05-09
64380-0878-06 100 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (64380-878-06) ETHOSUXIMIDE Strides Pharma Science Limited 2019-05-15
69452-0152-20 100 CAPSULE, LIQUID FILLED in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (69452-152-2... Ethosuximide Bionpharma Inc. 2016-10-21
Observed labelers: Epic Pharma, LLC (2) · Bionpharma Inc. (1) · Bryant Ranch Prepack (1) · Chartwell RX, LLC (1) · Parke-Davis Div of Pfizer Inc (1) · Strides Pharma Science Limited (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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