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Prednisolone 5 MG Oral Tablet — RxCUI 198142

Name: Prednisolone 5 MG Oral Tablet (RxCUI 198142)
Creator: Brian Staiger, PharmD

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug

RxCUI 198142 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 4 FDA products 6 package NDCs Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

This page is curated, coded, and maintained by Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD

Compiled from public NLM RxNorm and FDA (openFDA NDC directory) data sources. Editorial policy

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

RxCUI198142

Official namePrednisolone 5 MG Oral Tablet

Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)

RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept

FDA products mapped4

Package NDCs mapped6

Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)2,137 prescriptions · 17 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025

RxNorm release07/06/2026

Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Prednisolone 5 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 Prednisolone 5 MG Oral Tablet RxCUI 198142 Semantic clinical drug · SCD

Every web starts here: one RxCUI, one fixed meaning in the RxNorm vocabulary.

Ingredients 1

The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.
- Prednisolone 8638 IN
Brand names 2

The same medicine's trade names. A brand name alone says nothing about strength or form.
- MILLIPRED 795094 BN
- Prednistab 1191678 BN
Dose forms 12

The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.
- Prednisolone Oral Tablet 373578 SCDF
- Prednisolone Oral Product 1165759 SCDG
- Prednisolone Pill 1156758 SCDG
- Prednisolone Oral Tablet [MILLIPRED] 808117 SBDF
- Prednisolone Oral Tablet [Prednistab] 1191680 SBDF
- MILLIPRED Oral Product 1184934 SBDG
- MILLIPRED Pill 1184935 SBDG
- Prednistab Oral Product 1191681 SBDG
- +4 more in this family
Clinical & branded drugs 5

Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.
- Prednisolone 5 MG 316579 SCDC
- Prednisolone 5 MG Oral Tablet [MILLIPRED] 808118 SBD
- Prednisolone 5 MG Oral Tablet [Prednistab] 1191686 SBD
- Prednisolone 5 MG [MILLIPRED] 808116 SBDC
- Prednisolone 5 MG [Prednistab] 1191685 SBDC
Packs 4

Fixed collections of drugs packaged and sold together, like dose packs.
- {21 (prednisolone 5 MG Oral Tablet [MILLIPRED]) } Pack [Millipred DP 6 Day] 1235042 BPCK
- {48 (prednisolone 5 MG Oral Tablet [MILLIPRED]) } Pack [Millipred DP 12 Day] 1005831 BPCK
- {21 (prednisolone 5 MG Oral Tablet) } Pack 1013114 GPCK
- {48 (prednisolone 5 MG Oral Tablet) } Pack 1005830 GPCK

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 20 of 24 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

Prednisolone 5 MG SCDC · 316579
Prednisolone Oral Tablet SCDF · 373578
Prednisolone Oral Product SCDG · 1165759
Prednisolone Pill SCDG · 1156758
{21 (prednisolone 5 MG Oral Tablet) } Pack GPCK · 1013114
{48 (prednisolone 5 MG Oral Tablet) } Pack GPCK · 1005830

Brand-Name Concepts

Prednisolone 5 MG Oral Tablet [MILLIPRED] SBD · 808118
Prednisolone 5 MG Oral Tablet [Prednistab] SBD · 1191686
Prednisolone 5 MG [MILLIPRED] SBDC · 808116
Prednisolone 5 MG [Prednistab] SBDC · 1191685
Prednisolone Oral Tablet [MILLIPRED] SBDF · 808117
Prednisolone Oral Tablet [Prednistab] SBDF · 1191680
MILLIPRED Oral Product SBDG · 1184934
MILLIPRED Pill SBDG · 1184935
Prednistab Oral Product SBDG · 1191681
Prednistab Pill SBDG · 1191682

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

4 products · 6 package NDCs

6 package NDCs map to RxCUI 198142 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
42658-0160-05	100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (42658-160-05)	PREDNISOLONE	Hisun Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2024-09-01
59651-0491-01	100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (59651-491-01)	PREDNISOLONE	Aurobindo Pharma Limited	2023-03-17
59651-0491-50	50 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (59651-491-50)	PREDNISOLONE	Aurobindo Pharma Limited	2023-03-17
60722-5011-00	100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (60722-5011-0)	PREDNISOLONE	Zhejiang Xianju Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.	2024-09-01
60722-5011-01	1000 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (60722-5011-1)	PREDNISOLONE	Zhejiang Xianju Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.	2024-09-01
62135-0437-30	30 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (62135-437-30)	Prednisolone	Chartwell RX, LLC	2023-03-08

Observed labelers: Aurobindo Pharma Limited (2) · Zhejiang Xianju Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (2) · Chartwell RX, LLC (1) · Hisun Pharmaceuticals 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

$8.5057

Range $8.5057–$8.5057 · middle 50% $8.5057–$8.5057 · 3 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.

🧾 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.

Code	Descriptor	Mapped packages	Sources
J7510	Prednisolone oral per 5 mg	1	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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