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Prednisone 20 MG Oral Tablet — RxCUI 312615

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 312615 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 140 FDA products 536 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

RxCUI312615
Official namePrednisone 20 MG Oral Tablet
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
FDA products mapped140
Package NDCs mapped536
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)5,160,494 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 Prednisone 20 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 Prednisone 20 MG Oral Tablet RxCUI 312615

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.

    • Prednisone 8640
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Deltasone 227730
  3. Dose forms 9

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

    • Prednisone Oral Tablet 373585
    • Prednisone Oral Product 1161705
    • Prednisone Pill 1161706
    • Prednisone Oral Tablet [Deltasone] 92354
    • Deltasone Oral Product 1172410
    • Deltasone Pill 1172411
    • 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.

    • Prednisone 20 MG 316582
    • Prednisone 20 MG Oral Tablet [Deltasone] 206997
    • Prednisone 20 MG [Deltasone] 567793

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

  • Prednisone 20 MG SCDC · 316582
  • Prednisone Oral Tablet SCDF · 373585
  • Prednisone Oral Product SCDG · 1161705
  • Prednisone Pill SCDG · 1161706

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Prednisone 20 MG Oral Tablet [Deltasone] SBD · 206997
  • Prednisone 20 MG [Deltasone] SBDC · 567793
  • Prednisone Oral Tablet [Deltasone] SBDF · 92354
  • Deltasone Oral Product SBDG · 1172410
  • Deltasone Pill SBDG · 1172411
  • Deltasone BN · 227730

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

140 products · 536 package NDCs
536 package NDCs map to RxCUI 312615 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
87063-0042-30 30 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-042-30) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0042-60 60 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-042-60) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0042-78 10 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (87063-042-78) / 10 TABLET in 1... PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0042-90 90 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-042-90) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0043-01 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-043-01) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0043-18 18 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-043-18) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0043-20 20 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-043-20) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0043-21 21 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-043-21) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0043-30 30 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-043-30) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0043-60 60 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-043-60) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0043-78 10 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (87063-043-78) / 10 TABLET in 1... PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0043-90 90 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-043-90) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0044-01 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-044-01) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0044-18 18 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-044-18) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0044-20 20 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-044-20) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0044-21 21 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-044-21) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0044-30 30 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-044-30) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0044-60 60 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-044-60) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0044-78 10 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (87063-044-78) / 10 TABLET in 1... PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0044-90 90 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-044-90) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0045-01 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-045-01) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0045-18 18 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-045-18) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0045-20 20 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-045-20) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0045-21 21 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-045-21) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0045-30 30 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-045-30) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0045-60 60 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-045-60) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0045-78 10 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (87063-045-78) / 10 TABLET in 1... PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0045-90 90 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-045-90) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0048-01 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-048-01) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0048-18 18 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-048-18) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0048-20 20 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-048-20) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0048-21 21 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-048-21) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0048-30 30 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-048-30) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0048-60 60 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-048-60) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0048-78 10 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (87063-048-78) / 10 TABLET in 1... PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
87063-0048-90 90 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (87063-048-90) PREDNISONE ASCLEMED USA INC. 2025-12-03
Observed labelers: Bryant Ranch Prepack (78) · Proficient Rx LP (53) · Asclemed USA, Inc. (44) · ASCLEMED USA INC. (40) · A-S Medication Solutions (35) · PD-Rx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (29) · +30 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
J7512 Prednisone ir or dr oral 1mg 79 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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