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Praziquantel 600 MG Oral Tablet — RxCUI 198140

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 198140 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 2 FDA products 2 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

RxCUI198140
Official namePraziquantel 600 MG Oral Tablet
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
FDA products mapped2
Package NDCs mapped2
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)1,374 prescriptions · 21 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Praziquantel 600 MG Oral Tablet 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 Praziquantel 600 MG Oral Tablet RxCUI 198140

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.

    • Praziquantel 8628
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Biltricide 204264
  3. Dose forms 9

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

    • Praziquantel Oral Tablet 373563
    • Praziquantel Oral Product 1161698
    • Praziquantel Pill 1161699
    • Praziquantel Oral Tablet [Biltricide] 369170
    • Biltricide Oral Product 1173661
    • Biltricide Pill 1173662
    • Oral Tablet 317541
    • 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

  • Praziquantel 600 MG SCDC · 316578
  • Praziquantel Oral Tablet SCDF · 373563
  • Praziquantel Oral Product SCDG · 1161698
  • Praziquantel Pill SCDG · 1161699

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Praziquantel 600 MG Oral Tablet [Biltricide] SBD · 208975
  • Praziquantel 600 MG [Biltricide] SBDC · 569619
  • Praziquantel Oral Tablet [Biltricide] SBDF · 369170
  • Biltricide Oral Product SBDG · 1173661
  • Biltricide Pill SBDG · 1173662
  • Biltricide BN · 204264

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

2 products · 2 package NDCs
2 package NDCs map to RxCUI 198140 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
49884-0231-83 6 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (49884-231-83) PRAZIQUANTEL Endo USA, Inc. 2017-11-27
50419-0747-01 6 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (50419-747-01) Biltricide Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2011-04-21
Observed labelers: Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. (1) · Endo USA, Inc. (1) — this is the FDA-listed mapping footprint, not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

💲 Pricing (NADAC)

NADAC is CMS's National Average Drug Acquisition Cost — roughly what pharmacies pay to buy the drug. It is an acquisition benchmark, not your copay.
Per ea · median
$53.0080
Range $53.0080–$53.0080 · middle 50% $53.0080–$53.0080 · 1 NDCs
Latest compatible distributions from the CMS NADAC file · dataset watermark 2026-07-10. Prices vary by package and pharmacy; a distribution is shown instead of one misleading number. Rows the dataset is silent on carry no price. No zero-cost conclusion should be drawn.

🗃️ 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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