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Mesalamine 1000 MG Rectal Suppository — RxCUI 248420

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 248420 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 11 FDA products 15 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

RxCUI248420
Official nameMesalamine 1000 MG Rectal Suppository
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asmesalazine 1000 MG Rectal Suppository
FDA products mapped11
Package NDCs mapped15
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)20,743 prescriptions · 45 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Mesalamine 1000 MG Rectal Suppository 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 Mesalamine 1000 MG Rectal Suppository RxCUI 248420

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.

    • Mesalamine 52582
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Canasa 196493
  3. Dose forms 6

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

    • Mesalamine Rectal Suppository 372786
    • Mesalamine Rectal Product 1165716
    • Mesalamine Rectal Suppository [Canasa] 367530
    • Canasa Rectal Product 1172309
    • Rectal Suppository 316978
    • Rectal Product 1151127
  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

  • Mesalamine 1000 MG SCDC · 334030
  • Mesalamine Rectal Suppository SCDF · 372786
  • Mesalamine Rectal Product SCDG · 1165716

Brand-Name Concepts

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

11 products · 15 package NDCs
15 package NDCs map to RxCUI 248420 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
00472-1915-30 30 POUCH in 1 BOX (0472-1915-30) / 1 SUPPOSITORY in 1 POUCH... Mesalamine Actavis Pharma, Inc. 2021-04-23
16571-0246-03 5 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (16571-246-03) / 6 SUPPOSITORY i... Mesalamine Rising Pharma Holdings, Inc. 2025-04-14
16571-0246-72 12 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (16571-246-72) / 6 SUPPOSITORY... Mesalamine Rising Pharma Holdings, Inc. 2025-04-14
16714-0245-30 5 BLISTER PACK in 1 POUCH (16714-245-30) / 6 SUPPOSITORY in... Mesalamine Northstar Rx LLC. 2021-08-25
31722-0005-30 5 PACKAGE in 1 CARTON (31722-005-30) / 6 SUPPOSITORY in 1 P... Mesalamine Camber Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2020-03-19
31722-0005-31 7 PACKAGE in 1 CARTON (31722-005-31) / 6 SUPPOSITORY in 1 P... Mesalamine Camber Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2020-03-19
58914-0501-33 3 SUPPOSITORY in 1 BOX (58914-501-33) Canasa Allergan, Inc. 2001-01-05
58914-0501-42 42 SUPPOSITORY in 1 BOX (58914-501-42) Canasa Allergan, Inc. 2001-01-05
58914-0501-56 30 SUPPOSITORY in 1 BOX (58914-501-56) Canasa Allergan, Inc. 2001-01-05
63629-2397-01 5 PACKAGE in 1 CARTON (63629-2397-1) / 6 SUPPOSITORY in 1 P... Mesalamine Bryant Ranch Prepack 2021-05-04
64980-0282-03 5 PACKAGE in 1 CARTON (64980-282-03) / 6 SUPPOSITORY in 1 P... Mesalamine Rising Pharma Holdings, Inc. 2019-06-05
69918-0560-30 30 SUPPOSITORY in 1 BOX (69918-560-30) Mesalamine Rectal Amring Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2019-06-24
70710-1302-07 5 BLISTER PACK in 1 POUCH (70710-1302-7) / 6 SUPPOSITORY in... Mesalamine Zydus Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. 2020-02-14
70771-1513-07 5 BLISTER PACK in 1 POUCH (70771-1513-7) / 6 SUPPOSITORY in... Mesalamine Zydus Lifesciences Limited 2020-02-14
72162-1804-01 5 PACKAGE in 1 CARTON (72162-1804-1) / 6 SUPPOSITORY in 1 P... Mesalamine Bryant Ranch Prepack 2019-06-05
Observed labelers: Allergan, Inc. (3) · Rising Pharma Holdings, Inc. (3) · Bryant Ranch Prepack (2) · Camber Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (2) · Actavis Pharma, Inc. (1) · Amring Pharmaceuticals Inc. (1) · +3 more — 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 ea · median
$1.3289
Range $1.3289–$37.0900 · middle 50% $1.3289–$1.3289 · 8 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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