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Prednisone 5 MG Oral Tablet — RxCUI 312617

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 312617 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 141 FDA products 409 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

RxCUI312617
Official namePrednisone 5 MG Oral Tablet
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
FDA products mapped141
Package NDCs mapped409
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)3,676,268 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 5 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 5 MG Oral Tablet RxCUI 312617

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. Dose forms 6

    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
    • Oral Tablet 317541
    • Oral Product 1151131
    • Pill 1151133
  3. Clinical & branded drugs 1

    Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.

    • Prednisone 5 MG 316584
  4. Packs 2

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

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 10 of 10 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

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

141 products · 409 package NDCs
409 package NDCs map to RxCUI 312617 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
70954-0057-10 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70954-057-10) Prednisone ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2019-11-15
70954-0058-10 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70954-058-10) Prednisone ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2019-11-15
70954-0058-20 1000 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70954-058-20) Prednisone ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2019-11-15
70954-0058-30 1 BLISTER PACK in 1 BOX (70954-058-30) / 21 TABLET in 1 BLI... Prednisone ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2020-05-28
70954-0058-40 1 BLISTER PACK in 1 BOX (70954-058-40) / 48 TABLET in 1 BLI... Prednisone ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2020-05-28
70954-0059-10 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70954-059-10) Prednisone ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2019-11-15
70954-0059-20 1000 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70954-059-20) Prednisone ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2019-11-15
70954-0059-30 1 BLISTER PACK in 1 BOX (70954-059-30) / 21 TABLET in 1 BLI... Prednisone ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2020-05-28
70954-0059-40 1 BLISTER PACK in 1 BOX (70954-059-40) / 48 TABLET in 1 BLI... Prednisone ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2020-05-28
70954-0060-10 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70954-060-10) Prednisone ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2019-11-15
70954-0060-20 500 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70954-060-20) Prednisone ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2019-11-15
70954-0060-30 1000 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70954-060-30) Prednisone ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2019-11-15
70954-0061-10 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (70954-061-10) Prednisone ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2019-11-15
71335-0335-00 10 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0335-0) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2010-10-26
71335-0335-01 21 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0335-1) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2010-10-26
71335-0335-02 40 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0335-2) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2010-10-26
71335-0335-03 30 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0335-3) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2010-10-26
71335-0335-04 20 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0335-4) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2010-10-26
71335-0335-05 15 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0335-5) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2010-10-26
71335-0335-06 50 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0335-6) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2010-10-26
71335-0335-07 60 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0335-7) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2010-10-26
71335-0335-08 42 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0335-8) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2010-10-26
71335-0335-09 48 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0335-9) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2010-10-26
71335-0508-00 42 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0508-0) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-02-19
71335-0508-01 30 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0508-1) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-02-19
71335-0508-02 78 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0508-2) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-02-19
71335-0508-03 36 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0508-3) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-02-19
71335-0508-04 21 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0508-4) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-02-19
71335-0508-05 15 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0508-5) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-02-19
71335-0508-06 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0508-6) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-02-19
71335-0508-07 20 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0508-7) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-02-19
71335-0508-08 10 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0508-8) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-02-19
71335-0508-09 90 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0508-9) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-02-19
71335-0623-00 11 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0623-0) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-03-20
71335-0623-01 20 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0623-1) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-03-20
71335-0623-02 30 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0623-2) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-03-20
71335-0623-03 40 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0623-3) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-03-20
71335-0623-04 15 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0623-4) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-03-20
71335-0623-05 10 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0623-5) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-03-20
71335-0623-06 21 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0623-6) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-03-20
71335-0623-07 18 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0623-7) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-03-20
71335-0623-08 12 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0623-8) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-03-20
71335-0623-09 23 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-0623-9) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2015-03-20
71335-1780-00 42 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-1780-0) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2021-07-13
71335-1780-01 30 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-1780-1) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2021-04-26
71335-1780-02 78 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-1780-2) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2022-09-28
71335-1780-03 36 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-1780-3) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2022-09-28
71335-1780-04 21 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-1780-4) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2021-02-26
71335-1780-05 15 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-1780-5) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2021-05-03
71335-1780-06 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (71335-1780-6) Prednisone Bryant Ranch Prepack 2021-05-25
Observed labelers: Bryant Ranch Prepack (77) · A-S Medication Solutions (47) · Proficient Rx LP (45) · ASCLEMED USA INC. (40) · Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. (25) · Par Health USA, LLC (15) · +31 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 56 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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