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Meclofenamate 50 MG Oral Capsule — RxCUI 618557

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 618557 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● 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

RxCUI618557
Official nameMeclofenamate 50 MG Oral Capsule
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asmeclofenamate (as meclofenamate sodium) 50 MG Oral Capsule; meclofenamate sodium 50 MG Oral Capsule
FDA products mapped2
Package NDCs mapped2
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)85 prescriptions · 3 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Meclofenamate 50 MG Oral Capsule 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 Meclofenamate 50 MG Oral Capsule RxCUI 618557

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.

    • Meclofenamate 588003
  2. Dose forms 6

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

    • Meclofenamate Oral Capsule 618551
    • Meclofenamate Oral Product 1159180
    • Meclofenamate Pill 1159181
    • Oral Capsule 316965
    • Oral Product 1151131
    • Pill 1151133
  3. Clinical & branded drugs 1

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

    • Meclofenamate 50 MG 618556

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 8 of 8 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

  • Meclofenamate 50 MG SCDC · 618556
  • Meclofenamate Oral Capsule SCDF · 618551
  • Meclofenamate Oral Product SCDG · 1159180
  • Meclofenamate Pill SCDG · 1159181

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

2 products · 2 package NDCs
2 package NDCs map to RxCUI 618557 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
00378-2150-01 100 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (0378-2150-01) Meclofenamate Sodium Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. 1986-09-03
00378-3000-01 100 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (0378-3000-01) Meclofenamate Sodium Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. 1986-09-03
Observed labelers: Mylan 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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