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Potassium chloride 2 MEQ/ML Injectable Solution — RxCUI 204520

Name: Potassium chloride 2 MEQ/ML Injectable Solution (RxCUI 204520)
Creator: Brian Staiger, PharmD

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug

RxCUI 204520 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 3 FDA products 5 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

RxCUI204520

Official namePotassium chloride 2 MEQ/ML Injectable Solution

Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)

RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept

Also known asK+ Chloride 2 MEQ/ML Injectable Solution; Pot Chloride 2 MEQ/ML Injectable Solution; potassium chloride 15 % Injectable Solution

FDA products mapped3

Package NDCs mapped5

Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)38,711 prescriptions · 45 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?

📖 Read our full Potassium Chloride guide →

🕸️ Concept Web — How Potassium chloride 2 MEQ/ML Injectable Solution 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 2 MEQ/ML Injectable Solution RxCUI 204520 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.
- Potassium chloride 8591 IN
Dose forms 4

The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.
- Potassium chloride Injectable Solution 152997 SCDF
- Potassium chloride Injectable Product 1160486 SCDG
- Injectable Solution 316949 DF
- Injectable Product 1151126 DFG
Clinical & branded drugs 1

Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.
- Potassium chloride 2 MEQ/ML 333182 SCDC

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 6 of 6 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

Potassium chloride 2 MEQ/ML SCDC · 333182
Potassium chloride Injectable Solution SCDF · 152997
Potassium chloride Injectable Product SCDG · 1160486

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

3 products · 5 package NDCs

5 package NDCs map to RxCUI 204520 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
00264-1944-20	24 CONTAINER in 1 CASE (0264-1944-20) / 250 mL in 1 CONTAIN...	POTASSIUM CHLORIDE	B. Braun Medical Inc.	2022-05-02
63323-0965-05	25 VIAL, SINGLE-DOSE in 1 TRAY (63323-965-05) / 5 mL in 1 V...	Potassium Chloride	Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC	1999-09-27
63323-0965-10	25 VIAL, SINGLE-DOSE in 1 TRAY (63323-965-10) / 10 mL in 1...	Potassium Chloride	Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC	1999-09-27
63323-0965-20	25 VIAL, SINGLE-DOSE in 1 TRAY (63323-965-20) / 20 mL in 1...	Potassium Chloride	Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC	1999-09-27
63323-0967-30	25 VIAL, MULTI-DOSE in 1 TRAY (63323-967-30) / 30 mL in 1 V...	Potassium Chloride	Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC	2000-09-05

Observed labelers: Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC (4) · B. Braun Medical Inc. (1) — this is the FDA-listed mapping footprint, not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

🧾 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
J3480	Inj potassium chloride	5	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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