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Carboxymethylcellulose sodium 0.01 MG/MG Ophthalmic Gel — RxCUI 579907

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 579907 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 6 FDA products 7 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

RxCUI579907
Official nameCarboxymethylcellulose sodium 0.01 MG/MG Ophthalmic Gel
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known ascarboxymethylcellulose sodium 1 % Ophthalmic Gel
FDA products mapped6
Package NDCs mapped7
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)31,407 prescriptions · 30 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

🕸️ Concept Web — How Carboxymethylcellulose sodium 0.01 MG/MG Ophthal... 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 Carboxymethylcellulose sodium 0.01 MG/MG Ophthalmic Gel RxCUI 579907

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

  1. Ingredients 2

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

    • Carboxymethylcellulose 2062
    • Carboxymethylcellulose sodium 491498
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • TheraTears 220262
  3. Dose forms 9

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

    • Carboxymethylcellulose Ophthalmic Gel 376464
    • Carboxymethylcellulose sodium Ophthalmic Gel 2645459
    • Carboxymethylcellulose Ophthalmic Product 1151388
    • Carboxymethylcellulose sodium Ophthalmic Product 2661596
    • Carboxymethylcellulose Ophthalmic Gel [TheraTears] 998665
    • Carboxymethylcellulose sodium Ophthalmic Gel [TheraTears] 2654542
    • TheraTears Ophthalmic Product 1186113
    • Ophthalmic Gel 316963
    • +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 — 14 of 15 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

  • Carboxymethylcellulose sodium 0.01 MG/MG SCDC · 1374724
  • Carboxymethylcellulose Ophthalmic Gel SCDF · 376464
  • Carboxymethylcellulose sodium Ophthalmic Gel SCDFP · 2645459
  • Carboxymethylcellulose Ophthalmic Product SCDG · 1151388
  • Carboxymethylcellulose sodium Ophthalmic Product SCDGP · 2661596

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Carboxymethylcellulose sodium 0.01 MG/MG Ophthalmic Gel [TheraTears] SBD · 998666
  • Carboxymethylcellulose sodium 0.01 MG/MG [TheraTears] SBDC · 2532167
  • Carboxymethylcellulose Ophthalmic Gel [TheraTears] SBDF · 998665
  • Carboxymethylcellulose sodium Ophthalmic Gel [TheraTears] SBDFP · 2654542
  • TheraTears Ophthalmic Product SBDG · 1186113
  • TheraTears BN · 220262

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

6 products · 7 package NDCs
7 package NDCs map to RxCUI 579907 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
00023-4554-05 5 VIAL, SINGLE-USE in 1 CARTON (0023-4554-05) / .4 mL in 1... REFRESH CELLUVISC Allergan, Inc. 1989-10-04
00023-4554-30 30 VIAL, SINGLE-USE in 1 CARTON (0023-4554-30) / .4 mL in 1... REFRESH CELLUVISC Allergan, Inc. 1989-10-04
00023-9205-15 1 BOTTLE, DROPPER in 1 CARTON (0023-9205-15) / 15 mL in 1 B... REFRESH LIQUIGEL Allergan, Inc. 2001-10-04
50268-0065-30 30 VIAL, SINGLE-USE in 1 CARTON (50268-065-30) / .4 mL in 1... carboxymethylcellulose sodium AvPAK 2020-11-18
58790-0002-28 7 POUCH in 1 CARTON (58790-002-28) / .6 mL in 1 POUCH TheraTears MEDTECH PRODUCTS INC 2002-12-01
58790-0003-30 6 POUCH in 1 CARTON (58790-003-30) / 5 VIAL in 1 POUCH / .6... TheraTears MEDTECH PRODUCTS INC 2018-12-07
70000-0089-01 1 BOTTLE, DROPPER in 1 CARTON (70000-0089-1) / 15 mL in 1 B... Dry Eye Relief CARDINAL HEALTH 110, LLC. DBA LEADER 2021-03-09
Observed labelers: Allergan, Inc. (3) · MEDTECH PRODUCTS INC (2) · AvPAK (1) · CARDINAL HEALTH 110, LLC. DBA LEADER (1) — 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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