Potassium chloride 20 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet — RxCUI 198116
RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 198116
Semantic clinical drug · SCD
● Current RxNorm concept 10 FDA products
22 package NDCs
Snapshot Jul 14, 2026
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
RxCUI198116
Official namePotassium chloride 20 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asK+ Chloride 20 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet; Pot Chloride 20 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet; potassium chloride 1500 MG (potassium 20 mEq) Extended Release Oral Tablet; potassium chloride 1500 MG Extended Release Oral Tablet
FDA products mapped10
Package NDCs mapped22
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)360,637 prescriptions · 52 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026
📖 Skip the Codes — Read It in Plain English.
Our pharmacist-built guide to Potassium Chloride: what it is, how it’s used, side effects, and interactions.
📗 Our plain-language guide HelloPharmacist
- 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...
- Do I have to take it with food? What happens if I forget?
🕸️ Concept Web — How Potassium chloride 20 MEQ Extended Release Oral... 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
Potassium chloride 20 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet
RxCUI 198116 Semantic clinical drug · SCD
Every web starts here: one RxCUI, one fixed meaning in the RxNorm vocabulary.
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Ingredients 1
The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.
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Potassium chloride
8591IN
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Potassium chloride
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Dose forms 6
The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.
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Potassium chloride Extended Release Oral Tablet
373524SCDF -
Potassium chloride Oral Product
1160489SCDG -
Potassium chloride Pill
1160490SCDG -
Extended Release Oral Tablet
316945DF -
Oral Product
1151131DFG -
Pill
1151133DFG
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Potassium chloride Extended Release Oral Tablet
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Clinical & branded drugs 1
Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.
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Potassium chloride 20 MEQ
316547SCDC
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Potassium chloride 20 MEQ
Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 8 of 8 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
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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
📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs
10 products · 22 package NDCs
22 package NDCs map to RxCUI 198116 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00615-8580-05 | 15 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BLISTER PACK (... | Potassium Chloride | NCS HealthCare of KY, LLC dba Vangard Labs | 2025-09-16 |
| 00615-8580-39 | 30 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BLISTER PACK (... | Potassium Chloride | NCS HealthCare of KY, LLC dba Vangard Labs | 2025-09-16 |
| 24979-0231-01 | 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (24979-231... | Potassium Chloride Extended-Release | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2023-04-10 |
| 24979-0231-02 | 500 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (24979-231... | Potassium Chloride Extended-Release | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2023-04-10 |
| 24979-0231-03 | 1000 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (24979-23... | Potassium Chloride Extended-Release | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2023-04-10 |
| 24979-0232-01 | 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (24979-232... | Potassium Chloride Extended-Release | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2023-04-10 |
| 24979-0232-02 | 500 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (24979-232... | Potassium Chloride Extended-Release | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2023-04-10 |
| 70436-0152-01 | 100 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (70436... | Potassium Chloride | Slate Run Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2020-02-01 |
| 70436-0152-03 | 1000 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (7043... | Potassium Chloride | Slate Run Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2020-02-01 |
| 70436-0153-01 | 100 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (70436... | Potassium Chloride | Slate Run Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2020-02-01 |
| 70436-0153-02 | 500 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (70436... | Potassium Chloride | Slate Run Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2020-02-01 |
| 72789-0504-82 | 500 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLAST... | Potassium chloride | PD-Rx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2025-05-12 |
| 72888-0075-00 | 1000 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (7288... | Potassium chloride | Advagen Pharma Ltd | 2022-07-25 |
| 72888-0075-01 | 100 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (72888... | Potassium chloride | Advagen Pharma Ltd | 2022-07-25 |
| 72888-0075-05 | 500 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (72888... | Potassium chloride | Advagen Pharma Ltd | 2022-07-25 |
| 72888-0076-01 | 100 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (72888... | Potassium chloride | Advagen Pharma Ltd | 2022-07-25 |
| 72888-0076-05 | 500 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (72888... | Potassium chloride | Advagen Pharma Ltd | 2022-07-25 |
| 72888-0201-00 | 1000 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (7288... | Potassium chloride | Advagen Pharma Ltd | 2024-08-22 |
| 72888-0201-01 | 100 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (72888... | Potassium chloride | Advagen Pharma Ltd | 2024-08-22 |
| 82804-0057-30 | 30 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (82804-057-... | Potassium Chloride Extended-Release | Proficient Rx LP | 2024-01-15 |
| 82804-0057-60 | 60 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (82804-057-... | Potassium Chloride Extended-Release | Proficient Rx LP | 2024-01-15 |
| 82804-0057-90 | 90 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (82804-057-... | Potassium Chloride Extended-Release | Proficient Rx LP | 2024-01-15 |
Observed labelers:
Advagen Pharma Ltd (7) ·
Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC (5) ·
Slate Run Pharmaceuticals, LLC (4) ·
Proficient Rx LP (3) ·
NCS HealthCare of KY, LLC dba Vangard Labs (2) ·
PD-Rx 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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