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Thyroid (USP) 300 MG Oral Tablet [Armour Thyroid] — RxCUI 208551

Name: Thyroid (USP) 300 MG Oral Tablet [Armour Thyroid] (RxCUI 208551)
Creator: Brian Staiger, PharmD

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic branded drug

RxCUI 208551 Semantic branded drug · SBD ● Current RxNorm concept 9 FDA products 9 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

RxCUI208551

Official nameThyroid (USP) 300 MG Oral Tablet [Armour Thyroid]

Concept typeSemantic branded drug (SBD)

RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept

Also known asArmour Thyroid 300 MG Oral Tablet; Armour Thyroid 300 MG (5 grain) Oral Tablet; Armour Thyroid (levothyroxine sodium 190 MCG / liothyronine sodium 45 MCG) Oral Tablet

FDA products mapped9

Package NDCs mapped9

Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)127,670 prescriptions · 50 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025

RxNorm release07/06/2026

Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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Our pharmacist-built guide to Thyroid: what it is, how it’s used, side effects, and interactions.

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Thyroid (USP) 300 MG Oral Tablet [Armour Thyroid... 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 Thyroid (USP) 300 MG Oral Tablet [Armour Thyroid] RxCUI 208551 Semantic branded drug · SBD

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.
- Thyroid (USP) 10572 IN
Brand names 1

The same medicine's trade names. A brand name alone says nothing about strength or form.
- Armour Thyroid 215407 BN
Dose forms 9

The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.
- Thyroid (USP) Oral Tablet 374122 SCDF
- Thyroid (USP) Oral Product 1162082 SCDG
- Thyroid (USP) Pill 1162083 SCDG
- Thyroid (USP) Oral Tablet [Armour Thyroid] 369234 SBDF
- Armour Thyroid Oral Product 1170768 SBDG
- Armour Thyroid Pill 1170769 SBDG
- Oral Tablet 317541 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.
- Thyroid (USP) 300 MG Oral Tablet 315235 SCD
- Thyroid (USP) 300 MG 333742 SCDC
- Thyroid (USP) 300 MG [Armour Thyroid] 569229 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

Thyroid (USP) 300 MG Oral Tablet SCD · 315235
Thyroid (USP) 300 MG SCDC · 333742
Thyroid (USP) Oral Tablet SCDF · 374122
Thyroid (USP) Oral Product SCDG · 1162082
Thyroid (USP) Pill SCDG · 1162083

Brand-Name Concepts

Thyroid (USP) 300 MG [Armour Thyroid] SBDC · 569229
Thyroid (USP) Oral Tablet [Armour Thyroid] SBDF · 369234
Armour Thyroid Oral Product SBDG · 1170768
Armour Thyroid Pill SBDG · 1170769
Armour Thyroid BN · 215407

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

9 products · 9 package NDCs

9 package NDCs map to RxCUI 208551 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
00456-0457-01	100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (0456-0457-01)	Armour Thyroid	Allergan, Inc.	1996-04-01
00456-0458-01	100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (0456-0458-01)	Armour Thyroid	Allergan, Inc.	1996-04-01
00456-0459-01	100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (0456-0459-01)	Armour Thyroid	Allergan, Inc.	1996-04-01
00456-0460-01	100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (0456-0460-01)	Armour Thyroid	Allergan, Inc.	1996-04-01
00456-0461-01	100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (0456-0461-01)	Armour Thyroid	Allergan, Inc.	1996-04-01
00456-0462-01	100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (0456-0462-01)	Armour Thyroid	Allergan, Inc.	1996-04-01
00456-0463-01	100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (0456-0463-01)	Armour Thyroid	Allergan, Inc.	1996-04-01
00456-0464-01	100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (0456-0464-01)	Armour Thyroid	Allergan, Inc.	1996-04-01
00456-1045-01	100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (0456-1045-01)	Armour Thyroid	Allergan, Inc.	1996-04-01

Observed labelers: Allergan, Inc. (9) — 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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