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Methylprednisolone 4 MG Oral Tablet — RxCUI 259966

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 259966 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 51 FDA products 84 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

RxCUI259966
Official nameMethylprednisolone 4 MG Oral Tablet
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
FDA products mapped51
Package NDCs mapped84
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)1,895,331 prescriptions · 52 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Methylprednisolone 4 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 Methylprednisolone 4 MG Oral Tablet RxCUI 259966

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.

    • Methylprednisolone 6902
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Medrol 202702
  3. Dose forms 9

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

    • Methylprednisolone Oral Tablet 372868
    • Methylprednisolone Oral Product 1163488
    • Methylprednisolone Pill 1163489
    • Methylprednisolone Oral Tablet [Medrol] 368772
    • Medrol Oral Product 1183796
    • Medrol Pill 1183797
    • 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.

  5. Packs 2

    Fixed collections of drugs packaged and sold together, like dose packs.

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 15 of 16 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

Brand-Name Concepts

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

51 products · 84 package NDCs
84 package NDCs map to RxCUI 259966 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
69306-0400-21 21 TABLET in 1 BLISTER PACK (69306-400-21) METHYLPREDNISOLONE Doc Rx 2021-03-18
70518-2864-00 1 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (70518-2864-0) / 21 TABLET in 1... METHYLPREDNISOLONE REMEDYREPACK INC. 2020-08-28
70518-4213-00 1 DOSE PACK in 1 CARTON (70518-4213-0) / 21 TABLET in 1 DOS... Methylprednisolone REMEDYREPACK INC. 2024-10-14
70771-1348-01 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70771-1348-1) methylprednisolone Zydus Lifesciences Limited 2018-05-01
70771-1348-03 1 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (70771-1348-3) / 21 TABLET in 1... methylprednisolone Zydus Lifesciences Limited 2018-05-01
70771-1348-05 500 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70771-1348-5) methylprednisolone Zydus Lifesciences Limited 2018-05-01
70771-1349-01 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70771-1349-1) methylprednisolone Zydus Lifesciences Limited 2018-05-01
70771-1349-04 10 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (70771-1349-4) / 10 TABLET in 1... methylprednisolone Zydus Lifesciences Limited 2018-05-01
70771-1349-05 500 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70771-1349-5) methylprednisolone Zydus Lifesciences Limited 2018-05-01
70771-1349-08 25 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70771-1349-8) methylprednisolone Zydus Lifesciences Limited 2018-05-01
70771-1350-01 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70771-1350-1) methylprednisolone Zydus Lifesciences Limited 2018-05-01
70771-1350-04 10 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (70771-1350-4) / 10 TABLET in 1... methylprednisolone Zydus Lifesciences Limited 2018-05-01
70771-1350-05 500 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70771-1350-5) methylprednisolone Zydus Lifesciences Limited 2018-05-01
70771-1350-07 50 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70771-1350-7) methylprednisolone Zydus Lifesciences Limited 2018-05-01
70771-1351-01 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70771-1351-1) methylprednisolone Zydus Lifesciences Limited 2018-05-01
70771-1351-04 10 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (70771-1351-4) / 10 TABLET in 1... methylprednisolone Zydus Lifesciences Limited 2018-05-01
70771-1351-05 500 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70771-1351-5) methylprednisolone Zydus Lifesciences Limited 2018-05-01
70771-1351-08 25 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70771-1351-8) methylprednisolone Zydus Lifesciences Limited 2018-05-01
71205-0453-21 1 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (71205-453-21) / 21 TABLET in 1... METHYLPREDNISOLONE Proficient Rx LP 2020-05-20
72162-1161-01 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (72162-1161-1) MethylPREDNISolone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2023-09-26
72162-1161-02 1 DOSE PACK in 1 CARTON (72162-1161-2) / 21 TABLET in 1 DOS... MethylPREDNISolone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2023-09-26
72189-0264-21 21 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (72189-264-21) METHYLPREDNISOLONE Direct_Rx 2021-09-13
76420-0041-21 21 TABLET in 1 BLISTER PACK (76420-041-21) Methylprednisolone Asclemed USA, Inc. 2020-01-23
76420-0193-21 21 TABLET in 1 BLISTER PACK (76420-193-21) METHYLPREDNISOLONE Asclemed USA, Inc. 2021-03-16
80425-0230-01 21 TABLET in 1 BLISTER PACK (80425-0230-1) Methylprednisolone Advanced Rx Pharmacy of Tennessee, LLC 2023-01-11
80425-0231-01 1 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (80425-0231-1) / 21 TABLET in 1... Methylprednisolone Advanced Rx Pharmacy of Tennessee, LLC 2023-01-11
80425-0255-01 1 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (80425-0255-1) / 21 TABLET in 1... Methylprednisolone Advanced Rx Pharmacy of Tennessee, LLC 2023-01-11
82804-0007-21 21 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (82804-007-21) methylprednisolone Proficient Rx LP 2023-09-08
82804-0007-30 30 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (82804-007-30) methylprednisolone Proficient Rx LP 2023-09-08
82804-0007-60 60 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (82804-007-60) methylprednisolone Proficient Rx LP 2023-09-08
82804-0007-90 90 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (82804-007-90) methylprednisolone Proficient Rx LP 2023-09-08
85509-1400-02 1 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (85509-1400-2) / 21 TABLET in 1... METHYLPREDNISOLONE PHOENIX RX LLC 2026-01-02
85766-0037-01 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (85766-037-01) METHYLPREDNISOLONE Sportpharm LLC 2025-08-07
85766-0037-21 1 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (85766-037-21) / 21 TABLET in 1... METHYLPREDNISOLONE Sportpharm LLC 2025-08-07
Observed labelers: Zydus Lifesciences Limited (15) · Zydus Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. (15) · Chartwell RX, LLC (6) · Proficient Rx LP (6) · Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. (5) · Pharmacia & Upjohn Company LLC (5) · +19 more — this is the FDA-listed mapping footprint, not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

🧾 Billing Codes (HCPCS)

Medical billing codes (HCPCS "J-codes") that connect to this concept's packages — used mostly when a clinic or hospital bills for a drug it administers. Each code links to its full billing page.
CodeDescriptorMapped packagesSources
J7509 Methylprednisolone oral 24 CMS
⚠ A crosswalk is not coverage: an NDC↔HCPCS mapping does not guarantee any payer covers or pays the code. Always verify the current payer policy before billing.

🗃️ 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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