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Sorafenib 200 MG Oral Tablet [Nexavar] — RxCUI 615979

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic branded drug
RxCUI 615979 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

RxCUI615979
Official nameSorafenib 200 MG Oral Tablet [Nexavar]
Concept typeSemantic branded drug (SBD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asNexavar 200 MG Oral Tablet
FDA products mapped2
Package NDCs mapped2
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)123 prescriptions · 2 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Sorafenib 200 MG Oral Tablet [Nexavar] 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 Sorafenib 200 MG Oral Tablet [Nexavar] RxCUI 615979

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.

    • Sorafenib 495881
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Nexavar 619985
  3. Dose forms 9

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

    • Sorafenib Oral Tablet 597746
    • Sorafenib Oral Product 1159691
    • Sorafenib Pill 1159692
    • Sorafenib Oral Tablet [Nexavar] 615978
    • Nexavar Oral Product 1182862
    • Nexavar Pill 1182863
    • 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.

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

  • Sorafenib 200 MG Oral Tablet SCD · 597747
  • Sorafenib 200 MG SCDC · 597745
  • Sorafenib Oral Tablet SCDF · 597746
  • Sorafenib Oral Product SCDG · 1159691
  • Sorafenib Pill SCDG · 1159692

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Sorafenib 200 MG [Nexavar] SBDC · 615977
  • Sorafenib Oral Tablet [Nexavar] SBDF · 615978
  • Nexavar Oral Product SBDG · 1182862
  • Nexavar Pill SBDG · 1182863
  • Nexavar BN · 619985

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

2 products · 2 package NDCs
2 package NDCs map to RxCUI 615979 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
50419-0488-58 120 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (50419-488-58) Nexavar Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2005-12-20
50419-0489-01 120 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (50419-489-01) Nexavar Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2023-10-02
Observed labelers: Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals 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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