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Ganciclovir 500 MG Injection — RxCUI 310442

Name: Ganciclovir 500 MG Injection (RxCUI 310442)
Creator: Brian Staiger, PharmD

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug

RxCUI 310442 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 6 FDA products 6 package NDCs Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

This page is curated, coded, and maintained by Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD

Compiled from public NLM RxNorm and FDA (openFDA NDC directory) data sources. Editorial policy

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

RxCUI310442

Official nameGanciclovir 500 MG Injection

Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)

RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept

Also known asganciclovir 500 MG (as ganciclovir sodium) Injection

FDA products mapped6

Package NDCs mapped6

Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)274 prescriptions · 8 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025

RxNorm release07/06/2026

Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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Our pharmacist-built guide to Ganciclovir: what it is, how it’s used, side effects, and interactions.

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Ganciclovir is an antiviral that stops certain viruses from copying themselves. The injection form is used mainly to treat or prevent CMV (cytomegalovirus) infections — a serious v...
Why has my doctor prescribed ganciclovir — what exactly does it do?
The most important ones to watch for with the injection form are signs of low blood counts — things like unusual bruising, bleeding gums, persistent fever, or feeling unusually wea...
What side effects should I actually watch out for?

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Ganciclovir 500 MG Injection 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 Ganciclovir 500 MG Injection RxCUI 310442 Semantic clinical drug · SCD

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

Ingredients 1

The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.
- Ganciclovir 4678 IN
Dose forms 4

The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.
- Ganciclovir Injection 1732140 SCDF
- Ganciclovir Injectable Product 1163917 SCDG
- Injection 1649574 DF
- Injectable Product 1151126 DFG
Clinical & branded drugs 1

Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.
- Ganciclovir 500 MG 315974 SCDC

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 6 of 6 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

Ganciclovir 500 MG SCDC · 315974
Ganciclovir Injection SCDF · 1732140
Ganciclovir Injectable Product SCDG · 1163917

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

6 products · 6 package NDCs

6 package NDCs map to RxCUI 310442 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
00143-9299-10	10 VIAL in 1 BOX (0143-9299-10) / 10 mL in 1 VIAL (0143-929...	Ganciclovir	Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.	2021-06-17
42023-0173-25	25 VIAL, SINGLE-DOSE in 1 CARTON (42023-173-25) / 10 mL in...	Ganciclovir	Endo USA, Inc.	2016-12-06
63323-0315-10	25 VIAL in 1 TRAY (63323-315-10) / 10 mL in 1 VIAL (63323-3...	Ganciclovir	Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC	2010-06-28
63323-0315-94	25 VIAL in 1 TRAY (63323-315-94) / 10 mL in 1 VIAL (63323-3...	Ganciclovir	Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC	2010-06-28
70436-0089-55	25 VIAL in 1 CARTON (70436-089-55) / 10 mL in 1 VIAL	ganciclovir	Slate Run Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2019-01-01
70436-0231-55	25 VIAL in 1 CARTON (70436-231-55) / 10 mL in 1 VIAL	ganciclovir sodium	Slate Run Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2024-09-01

Observed labelers: Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC (2) · Slate Run Pharmaceuticals, LLC (2) · Endo USA, Inc. (1) · Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. (1) — 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.

Code	Descriptor	Mapped packages	Sources
J1570	Ganciclovir sodium injection	6	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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