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Famotidine 40 MG Oral Tablet — RxCUI 284245

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 284245 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 91 FDA products 301 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

RxCUI284245
Official nameFamotidine 40 MG Oral Tablet
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
FDA products mapped91
Package NDCs mapped301
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)5,270,237 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 Famotidine 40 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 Famotidine 40 MG Oral Tablet RxCUI 284245

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.

    • Famotidine 4278
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Pepcid 196458
  3. Dose forms 9

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

    • Famotidine Oral Tablet 372140
    • Famotidine Oral Product 1159021
    • Famotidine Pill 1159022
    • Famotidine Oral Tablet [Pepcid] 93732
    • Pepcid Oral Product 1185206
    • Pepcid Pill 1185207
    • 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

  • Famotidine 40 MG SCDC · 317369
  • Famotidine Oral Tablet SCDF · 372140
  • Famotidine Oral Product SCDG · 1159021
  • Famotidine Pill SCDG · 1159022

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Famotidine 40 MG Oral Tablet [Pepcid] SBD · 104095
  • Famotidine 40 MG [Pepcid] SBDC · 491221
  • Famotidine Oral Tablet [Pepcid] SBDF · 93732
  • Pepcid Oral Product SBDG · 1185206
  • Pepcid Pill SBDG · 1185207
  • Pepcid BN · 196458

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

91 products · 301 package NDCs
301 package NDCs map to RxCUI 284245 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
85766-0222-90 90 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (85766-222-90) Famotidine Sportpharm LLC 2026-06-26
Observed labelers: Bryant Ranch Prepack (54) · Proficient Rx LP (31) · Sportpharm LLC (18) · A-S Medication Solutions (14) · Alembic Pharmaceuticals Inc. (10) · Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited (10) · +30 more — 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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