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Dexamethasone phosphate 1 MG/ML Ophthalmic Solution — RxCUI 226343

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 226343 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 1 FDA product 1 package NDC 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

RxCUI226343
Official nameDexamethasone phosphate 1 MG/ML Ophthalmic Solution
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asdexamethasone sodium phosphate 0.1 % Ophthalmic Solution
FDA products mapped1
Package NDCs mapped1
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)24,795 prescriptions · 44 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Dexamethasone phosphate 1 MG/ML Ophthalmic Solut... 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 phosphate 1 MG/ML Ophthalmic Solution RxCUI 226343

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

  1. Ingredients 2

    The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.

    • Dexamethasone 3264
    • Dexamethasone phosphate 235486
  2. Dose forms 6

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

    • Dexamethasone Ophthalmic Solution 377418
    • Dexamethasone phosphate Ophthalmic Solution 2647718
    • Dexamethasone Ophthalmic Product 1154533
    • Dexamethasone phosphate Ophthalmic Product 2661354
    • Ophthalmic Solution 7670
    • Ophthalmic Product 1151135
  3. Clinical & branded drugs 1

    Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.

    • Dexamethasone phosphate 1 MG/ML 2265538

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 9 of 9 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 phosphate 1 MG/ML SCDC · 2265538
  • Dexamethasone Ophthalmic Solution SCDF · 377418
  • Dexamethasone phosphate Ophthalmic Solution SCDFP · 2647718
  • Dexamethasone Ophthalmic Product SCDG · 1154533
  • Dexamethasone phosphate Ophthalmic Product SCDGP · 2661354

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

1 product · 1 package NDC
1 package NDC map to RxCUI 226343 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
24208-0720-02 1 BOTTLE, DROPPER in 1 CARTON (24208-720-02) / 5 mL in 1 BO... Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate Bausch & Lomb Incorporated 1996-07-26
Observed labelers: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated (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 ml · median
$8.4611
Range $8.4611–$8.4611 · middle 50% $8.4611–$8.4611 · 1 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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