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Metronidazole 375 MG Oral Capsule — RxCUI 199055

Name: Metronidazole 375 MG Oral Capsule (RxCUI 199055)
Creator: Brian Staiger, PharmD

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug

RxCUI 199055 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 4 FDA products 12 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

RxCUI199055

Official nameMetronidazole 375 MG Oral Capsule

Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)

RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept

FDA products mapped4

Package NDCs mapped12

Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)822 prescriptions · 16 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025

RxNorm release07/06/2026

Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Metronidazole 375 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 Metronidazole 375 MG Oral Capsule RxCUI 199055 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.
- Metronidazole 6922 IN
Brand names 1

The same medicine's trade names. A brand name alone says nothing about strength or form.
- Flagyl 202866 BN
Dose forms 9

The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.
- Metronidazole Oral Capsule 372895 SCDF
- Metronidazole Oral Product 1164083 SCDG
- Metronidazole Pill 1164084 SCDG
- Metronidazole Oral Capsule [Flagyl] 687210 SBDF
- Flagyl Oral Product 1169007 SBDG
- Flagyl Pill 1169008 SBDG
- Oral Capsule 316965 DF
- Oral Product 1151131 DFG
- +1 more in this family
Clinical & branded drugs 3

Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.
- Metronidazole 375 MG 316301 SCDC
- Metronidazole 375 MG Oral Capsule [Flagyl] 687211 SBD
- Metronidazole 375 MG [Flagyl] 687209 SBDC

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

Metronidazole 375 MG SCDC · 316301
Metronidazole Oral Capsule SCDF · 372895
Metronidazole Oral Product SCDG · 1164083
Metronidazole Pill SCDG · 1164084

Brand-Name Concepts

Metronidazole 375 MG Oral Capsule [Flagyl] SBD · 687211
Metronidazole 375 MG [Flagyl] SBDC · 687209
Metronidazole Oral Capsule [Flagyl] SBDF · 687210
Flagyl Oral Product SBDG · 1169007
Flagyl Pill SBDG · 1169008
Flagyl BN · 202866

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

4 products · 12 package NDCs

12 package NDCs map to RxCUI 199055 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
00025-1942-34	100 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (0025-1942-34) / 1 CAPSULE in...	Flagyl	Pfizer Laboratories Div Pfizer Inc	1995-05-03
46708-0435-30	30 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (46708-435-30)	Metronidazole	Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited	2016-12-09
46708-0435-31	100 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (46708-435-31)	Metronidazole	Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited	2016-12-09
46708-0435-50	50 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (46708-435-50)	Metronidazole	Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited	2016-12-09
46708-0435-71	500 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (46708-435-71)	Metronidazole	Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited	2016-12-09
46708-0435-91	1000 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (46708-435-91)	Metronidazole	Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited	2016-12-09
62135-0836-50	50 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (62135-836-50)	Metronidazole	Chartwell RX, LLC	2024-02-15
62332-0018-30	30 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (62332-018-30)	Metronidazole	Alembic Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2016-12-09
62332-0018-31	100 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (62332-018-31)	Metronidazole	Alembic Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2016-12-09
62332-0018-50	50 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (62332-018-50)	Metronidazole	Alembic Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2016-12-09
62332-0018-71	500 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (62332-018-71)	Metronidazole	Alembic Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2016-12-09
62332-0018-91	1000 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (62332-018-91)	Metronidazole	Alembic Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2016-12-09

Observed labelers: Alembic Pharmaceuticals Inc. (5) · Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited (5) · Chartwell RX, LLC (1) · Pfizer Laboratories Div Pfizer 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

$7.3080

Range $7.3080–$7.3080 · middle 50% $7.3080–$7.3080 · 2 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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