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Nitroglycerin 0.02 MG/MG Topical Ointment — RxCUI 242946

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 242946 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 3 FDA products 6 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

RxCUI242946
Official nameNitroglycerin 0.02 MG/MG Topical Ointment
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asNTG 0.02 MG/MG Topical Ointment; nitroglycerin 2 % Topical Ointment; TNG 0.02 MG/MG Topical Ointment
FDA products mapped3
Package NDCs mapped6
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)8,740 prescriptions · 35 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Nitroglycerin 0.02 MG/MG Topical Ointment 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 Nitroglycerin 0.02 MG/MG Topical Ointment RxCUI 242946

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.

    • Nitroglycerin 4917
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Nitro-Bid 202516
  3. Dose forms 6

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

    • Nitroglycerin Topical Ointment 374405
    • Nitroglycerin Topical Product 1159832
    • Nitroglycerin Topical Ointment [Nitro-Bid] 93485
    • Nitro-Bid Topical Product 1183932
    • Topical Ointment 316985
    • Topical Product 1151122
  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 — 11 of 11 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

  • Nitroglycerin 0.02 MG/MG SCDC · 328468
  • Nitroglycerin Topical Ointment SCDF · 374405
  • Nitroglycerin Topical Product SCDG · 1159832

Brand-Name Concepts

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

3 products · 6 package NDCs
6 package NDCs map to RxCUI 242946 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
00281-0326-08 48 PACKET in 1 BOX (0281-0326-08) / 1 g in 1 PACKET NITRO-BID Savage Laboratories a division of Fougera Pharmaceuticals, LLC 2009-08-17
00281-0326-30 30 g in 1 TUBE (0281-0326-30) NITRO-BID Savage Laboratories a division of Fougera Pharmaceuticals, LLC 2009-08-17
00281-0326-60 60 g in 1 TUBE (0281-0326-60) NITRO-BID Savage Laboratories a division of Fougera Pharmaceuticals, LLC 2009-08-17
21922-0054-05 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (21922-054-05) / 30 g in 1 TUBE NITROGLYCERIN Encube Ethicals, Inc. 2025-04-16
21922-0054-47 48 POUCH in 1 CARTON (21922-054-47) / 1 g in 1 POUCH (21922... NITROGLYCERIN Encube Ethicals, Inc. 2025-04-16
51662-1340-01 30 g in 1 TUBE (51662-1340-1) NITROGLYCERIN HF Acquisition Co LLC, DBA HealthFirst 2018-12-22
Observed labelers: Savage Laboratories a division of Fougera Pharmaceuticals, LLC (3) · Encube Ethicals, Inc. (2) · HF Acquisition Co LLC, DBA HealthFirst (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 gm · median
$1.2335
Range $1.2270–$2.4219 · middle 50% $1.2302–$1.8277 · 3 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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