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Dexamethasone 20 MG Oral Tablet — RxCUI 2261802

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 2261802 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 1 FDA product 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

RxCUI2261802
Official nameDexamethasone 20 MG Oral Tablet
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
FDA products mapped1
Package NDCs mapped2
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)11 prescriptions · 1 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Dexamethasone 20 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 Dexamethasone 20 MG Oral Tablet RxCUI 2261802

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.

    • Dexamethasone 3264
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Hemady 2286256
  3. Dose forms 9

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

    • Dexamethasone Oral Tablet 371729
    • Dexamethasone Oral Product 1154535
    • Dexamethasone Pill 1154537
    • Dexamethasone Oral Tablet [Hemady] 2286258
    • Hemady Oral Product 2286259
    • Hemady Pill 2286260
    • 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

  • Dexamethasone 20 MG SCDC · 2261801
  • Dexamethasone Oral Tablet SCDF · 371729
  • Dexamethasone Oral Product SCDG · 1154535
  • Dexamethasone Pill SCDG · 1154537

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Dexamethasone 20 MG Oral Tablet [Hemady] SBD · 2286261
  • Dexamethasone 20 MG [Hemady] SBDC · 2286257
  • Dexamethasone Oral Tablet [Hemady] SBDF · 2286258
  • Hemady Oral Product SBDG · 2286259
  • Hemady Pill SBDG · 2286260
  • Hemady BN · 2286256

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

1 product · 2 package NDCs
2 package NDCs map to RxCUI 2261802 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
82111-0955-01 1 BOTTLE in 1 CARTON (82111-955-01) / 24 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE Hemady Edenbridge Pharmaceuticals LLC. 2023-12-01
82111-0955-02 1 BOTTLE in 1 CARTON (82111-955-02) / 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTL... Hemady Edenbridge Pharmaceuticals LLC. 2023-12-01
Observed labelers: Edenbridge Pharmaceuticals LLC. (2) — 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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