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Betamethasone 0.0005 MG/MG / calcipotriene 0.00005 MG/MG Topical Ointment — RxCUI 388525

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 388525 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 5 FDA products 8 package NDCs Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

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🗂️ Key Facts

RxCUI388525
Official nameBetamethasone 0.0005 MG/MG / calcipotriene 0.00005 MG/MG Topical Ointment
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asbetamethasone 0.05 % / calcipotriene 0.005 % Topical Ointment; calcipotriene 0.005 % / betamethasone dipropionate 0.064 % Topical Ointment; betamethasone 0.05 % (betamethasone dipropionate 0.064 % ) / calcipotriene 0.005 % Topical Ointment; betamethasone 0.5 MG (betamethasone dipropionate 0.64 MG) / calcipotriene 0.05 MG per GM Topical Ointment
FDA products mapped5
Package NDCs mapped8
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)2,444 prescriptions · 10 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Betamethasone 0.0005 MG/MG / calcipotriene 0.000... 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 Betamethasone 0.0005 MG/MG / calcipotriene 0.00005 MG/MG Topical Ointment RxCUI 388525

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

  1. Ingredients 3

    The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.

    • Betamethasone 1514
    • Calcipotriene 29365
    • Betamethasone / calcipotriene 690419
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Taclonex 748281
  3. Dose forms 6

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

    • Betamethasone / calcipotriene Topical Ointment 393355
    • Betamethasone / calcipotriene Topical Product 1153789
    • Betamethasone / calcipotriene Topical Ointment [Taclonex] 748283
    • Taclonex Topical Product 1177831
    • Topical Ointment 316985
    • Topical Product 1151122
  4. Clinical & branded drugs 4

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

    • Betamethasone 0.0005 MG/MG 330632
    • Calcipotriene 0.00005 MG/MG 329613
    • Betamethasone 0.0005 MG/MG / calcipotriene 0.00005 MG/MG Topical Ointment [Taclonex] 833472
    • Betamethasone 0.0005 MG/MG / calcipotriene 0.00005 MG/MG [Taclonex] 833471

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 14 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

  • Betamethasone 0.0005 MG/MG SCDC · 330632
  • Calcipotriene 0.00005 MG/MG SCDC · 329613
  • Betamethasone / calcipotriene Topical Ointment SCDF · 393355
  • Betamethasone / calcipotriene Topical Product SCDG · 1153789

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Betamethasone 0.0005 MG/MG / calcipotriene 0.00005 MG/MG Topical Ointment [Taclonex] SBD · 833472
  • Betamethasone 0.0005 MG/MG / calcipotriene 0.00005 MG/MG [Taclonex] SBDC · 833471
  • Betamethasone / calcipotriene Topical Ointment [Taclonex] SBDF · 748283
  • Taclonex Topical Product SBDG · 1177831
  • Taclonex BN · 748281

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

5 products · 8 package NDCs
8 package NDCs map to RxCUI 388525 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
45802-0816-01 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (45802-816-01) / 100 g in 1 TUBE Calcipotriene and Betamethasone Dipropionate Padagis Israel Pharmaceuticals Ltd 2020-01-30
45802-0816-96 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (45802-816-96) / 60 g in 1 TUBE Calcipotriene and Betamethasone Dipropionate Padagis Israel Pharmaceuticals Ltd 2020-01-30
63629-2520-01 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (63629-2520-1) / 60 g in 1 TUBE Calcipotriene and Betamethasone Dipropionate Bryant Ranch Prepack 2020-01-30
63629-8617-01 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (63629-8617-1) / 100 g in 1 TUBE Calcipotriene and Betamethasone Dipropionate Bryant Ranch Prepack 2020-01-30
66993-0938-61 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (66993-938-61) / 60 g in 1 TUBE Calcipotriene and Betamethasone Dipropionate Prasco Laboratories 2020-01-28
66993-0938-65 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (66993-938-65) / 100 g in 1 TUBE Calcipotriene and Betamethasone Dipropionate Prasco Laboratories 2020-01-28
72162-1428-01 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (72162-1428-1) / 100 g in 1 TUBE Calcipotriene and Betamethasone Dipropionate Bryant Ranch Prepack 2023-12-05
72162-1428-06 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (72162-1428-6) / 60 g in 1 TUBE Calcipotriene and Betamethasone Dipropionate Bryant Ranch Prepack 2023-12-05
Observed labelers: Bryant Ranch Prepack (4) · Padagis Israel Pharmaceuticals Ltd (2) · Prasco Laboratories (2) — 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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