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Paricalcitol 0.002 MG Oral Capsule [Zemplar] — RxCUI 606859

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic branded drug
RxCUI 606859 Semantic branded drug · SBD ● Current RxNorm concept 2 FDA products 2 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

RxCUI606859
Official nameParicalcitol 0.002 MG Oral Capsule [Zemplar]
Concept typeSemantic branded drug (SBD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asZemplar 2 MCG Oral Capsule; Zemplar 0.002 MG Oral Capsule
FDA products mapped2
Package NDCs mapped2
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)18 prescriptions · 1 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q3 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Paricalcitol 0.002 MG Oral Capsule [Zemplar] 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 Paricalcitol 0.002 MG Oral Capsule [Zemplar] RxCUI 606859

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.

    • Paricalcitol 73710
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Zemplar 221005
  3. Dose forms 9

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

    • Paricalcitol Oral Capsule 577314
    • Paricalcitol Oral Product 1161357
    • Paricalcitol Pill 1161358
    • Paricalcitol Oral Capsule [Zemplar] 606853
    • Zemplar Oral Product 1187240
    • Zemplar Pill 1187241
    • Oral Capsule 316965
    • 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.

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

  • Paricalcitol 0.002 MG Oral Capsule SCD · 577317
  • Paricalcitol 0.002 MG SCDC · 577316
  • Paricalcitol Oral Capsule SCDF · 577314
  • Paricalcitol Oral Product SCDG · 1161357
  • Paricalcitol Pill SCDG · 1161358

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Paricalcitol 0.002 MG [Zemplar] SBDC · 606858
  • Paricalcitol Oral Capsule [Zemplar] SBDF · 606853
  • Zemplar Oral Product SBDG · 1187240
  • Zemplar Pill SBDG · 1187241
  • Zemplar BN · 221005

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

2 products · 2 package NDCs
2 package NDCs map to RxCUI 606859 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
00074-9036-30 30 CAPSULE, LIQUID FILLED in 1 BOTTLE (0074-9036-30) Zemplar AbbVie Inc. 2018-04-20
00074-9037-30 30 CAPSULE, LIQUID FILLED in 1 BOTTLE (0074-9037-30) Zemplar AbbVie Inc. 2018-04-20
Observed labelers: AbbVie Inc. (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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