Potassium chloride 10 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet — RxCUI 628953
RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 628953
Semantic clinical drug · SCD
● Current RxNorm concept 67 FDA products
189 package NDCs
Snapshot Jul 14, 2026
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
RxCUI628953
Official namePotassium chloride 10 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asK+ Chloride 10 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet; potassium chloride 10 MEQ (750 MG) Extended Release Oral Tablet; Pot Chloride 10 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet; potassium chloride 750 MG (potassium 10 mEq) Extended Release Oral Tablet; potassium chloride 750 MG Extended Release Oral Tablet
FDA products mapped67
Package NDCs mapped189
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)728,170 prescriptions · 52 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026
📖 Skip the Codes — Read It in Plain English.
Our pharmacist-built guide to Potassium Chloride: what it is, how it’s used, side effects, and interactions.
📗 Our plain-language guide HelloPharmacist
- It treats and prevents low potassium. Doctors often use it when you take diuretics or lose fluids through diarrhea or vomiting and food alone isn't enough. The injection is used in...
- Take tablets and capsules with meals, not on an empty stomach, to protect your stomach. Powders and liquids need to be diluted first. Follow your prescriber's directions and keep y...
- The most common issue is stomach upset. Taking it with food helps. Call your doctor if you have severe vomiting, belly pain, swelling or bleeding, since that can mean an ulcer or b...
- Check with me first. Blood pressure medicines such as ACE inhibitors and ARBs, spironolactone, and NSAIDs can raise potassium. Triamterene and amiloride should be avoided with it.
🕸️ Concept Web — How Potassium chloride 10 MEQ Extended Release Oral... 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
Potassium chloride 10 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet
RxCUI 628953 Semantic clinical drug · SCD
Every web starts here: one RxCUI, one fixed meaning in the RxNorm vocabulary.
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Ingredients 1
The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.
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Potassium chloride
8591IN
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Potassium chloride
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Brand names 2
The same medicine's trade names. A brand name alone says nothing about strength or form.
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K-Tab
93028BN -
Klor-Con
217905BN
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K-Tab
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Dose forms 12
The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.
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Potassium chloride Extended Release Oral Tablet
373524SCDF -
Potassium chloride Oral Product
1160489SCDG -
Potassium chloride Pill
1160490SCDG -
Potassium chloride Extended Release Oral Tablet [K-Tab]
369934SBDF -
Potassium chloride Extended Release Oral Tablet [Klor-Con]
628957SBDF -
K-Tab Oral Product
1168507SBDG -
K-Tab Pill
1168508SBDG -
Klor-Con Oral Product
1172124SBDG - +4 more in this family
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Potassium chloride Extended Release Oral Tablet
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Clinical & branded drugs 5
Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.
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Potassium chloride 10 MEQ
316543SCDC -
Potassium chloride 10 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet [K-Tab]
670031SBD -
Potassium chloride 10 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet [Klor-Con]
628958SBD -
Potassium chloride 10 MEQ [K-Tab]
569572SBDC -
Potassium chloride 10 MEQ [Klor-Con]
628956SBDC
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Potassium chloride 10 MEQ
Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 16 of 20 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
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Potassium chloride 10 MEQ
SCDC · 316543 -
Potassium chloride Extended Release Oral Tablet
SCDF · 373524 -
Potassium chloride Oral Product
SCDG · 1160489 -
Potassium chloride Pill
SCDG · 1160490
Brand-Name Concepts
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Potassium chloride 10 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet [Klor-Con]
SBD · 628958 -
Potassium chloride 10 MEQ Extended Release Oral Tablet [K-Tab]
SBD · 670031 -
Potassium chloride 10 MEQ [K-Tab]
SBDC · 569572 -
Potassium chloride 10 MEQ [Klor-Con]
SBDC · 628956 -
Potassium chloride Extended Release Oral Tablet [K-Tab]
SBDF · 369934 -
Potassium chloride Extended Release Oral Tablet [Klor-Con]
SBDF · 628957 -
K-Tab Oral Product
SBDG · 1168507 -
K-Tab Pill
SBDG · 1168508 -
Klor-Con Oral Product
SBDG · 1172124 -
Klor-Con Pill
SBDG · 1172125
📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs
67 products · 189 package NDCs
189 package NDCs map to RxCUI 628953 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00245-0835-11 | 100 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0245-... | KLOR-CON | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2025-08-15 |
| 00245-0835-15 | 500 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0245-... | KLOR-CON | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2025-08-15 |
| 00245-0836-11 | 100 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0245-... | KLOR-CON | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2025-08-15 |
| 00245-0836-15 | 500 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0245-... | KLOR-CON | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2025-08-15 |
| 00245-5315-01 | 100 BLISTER PACK in 1 BLISTER PACK (0245-5315-01) / 1 TABLE... | KLOR-CON | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2019-06-21 |
| 00245-5315-11 | 100 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0245-... | KLOR-CON | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2019-06-21 |
| 00245-5315-15 | 500 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0245-... | KLOR-CON | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2019-06-21 |
| 00245-5316-01 | 100 BLISTER PACK in 1 BLISTER PACK (0245-5316-01) / 1 TABLE... | KLOR-CON | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2019-06-21 |
| 00245-5316-11 | 100 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0245-... | KLOR-CON | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2019-06-21 |
| 00245-5316-15 | 500 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0245-... | KLOR-CON | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2019-06-21 |
| 00378-4560-77 | 90 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTI... | Potassium Chloride | Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2016-11-09 |
| 00378-4561-05 | 500 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLAST... | Potassium Chloride | Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2016-11-09 |
| 00378-4561-77 | 90 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTI... | Potassium Chloride | Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2016-11-09 |
| 00615-8570-05 | 15 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BLISTER PACK (... | Potassium Chloride | NCS HealthCare of KY, LLC dba Vangard Labs | 2025-02-24 |
| 00615-8570-14 | 14 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BLISTER PACK (... | Potassium Chloride | NCS HealthCare of KY, LLC dba Vangard Labs | 2025-02-24 |
| 00615-8570-39 | 30 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BLISTER PACK (... | Potassium Chloride | NCS HealthCare of KY, LLC dba Vangard Labs | 2025-02-24 |
| 00832-5322-10 | 1000 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0832... | Potassium Chloride | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2019-06-21 |
| 00832-5322-11 | 100 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0832-... | Potassium Chloride | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2019-06-21 |
| 00832-5323-10 | 1000 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0832... | Potassium Chloride | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2019-06-21 |
| 00832-5323-11 | 100 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (0832-... | Potassium Chloride | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2019-06-21 |
| 00904-7216-61 | 100 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (0904-7216-61) / 1 TABLET, FIL... | Potassium Chloride | Major Pharmaceuticals | 2018-12-19 |
| 16571-0842-01 | 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (16571-842-01) | POTASSIUM CHLORIDE EXTENDED RELEASE | Rising Pharma Holdings, Inc. | 2025-02-13 |
| 16571-0842-10 | 1000 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (16571-842-10) | POTASSIUM CHLORIDE EXTENDED RELEASE | Rising Pharma Holdings, Inc. | 2025-09-18 |
| 16571-0842-50 | 500 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (16571-842-50) | POTASSIUM CHLORIDE EXTENDED RELEASE | Rising Pharma Holdings, Inc. | 2025-02-13 |
| 16571-0843-01 | 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (16571-843-01) | POTASSIUM CHLORIDE EXTENDED RELEASE | Rising Pharma Holdings, Inc. | 2025-02-13 |
| 16571-0843-10 | 1000 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (16571-843-10) | POTASSIUM CHLORIDE EXTENDED RELEASE | Rising Pharma Holdings, Inc. | 2025-09-18 |
| 16571-0843-50 | 500 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (16571-843-50) | POTASSIUM CHLORIDE EXTENDED RELEASE | Rising Pharma Holdings, Inc. | 2025-02-13 |
| 24979-0229-00 | 80000 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 DRUM (24979-229-00) | Potassium Chloride | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2025-06-01 |
| 24979-0229-01 | 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (24979-229-01) | Potassium Chloride | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2024-10-28 |
| 24979-0229-03 | 1000 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (24979-229-03) | Potassium Chloride | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2024-10-28 |
| 24979-0230-00 | 64000 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 DRUM (24979-230-00) | Potassium Chloride | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2025-06-01 |
| 24979-0230-01 | 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (24979-230-01) | Potassium Chloride | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2024-10-28 |
| 24979-0230-03 | 1000 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (24979-230-03) | Potassium Chloride | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2024-10-28 |
| 24979-0231-01 | 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (24979-231... | Potassium Chloride Extended-Release | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2023-04-10 |
| 24979-0231-02 | 500 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (24979-231... | Potassium Chloride Extended-Release | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2023-04-10 |
| 24979-0231-03 | 1000 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (24979-23... | Potassium Chloride Extended-Release | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2023-04-10 |
| 24979-0232-01 | 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (24979-232... | Potassium Chloride Extended-Release | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2023-04-10 |
| 24979-0232-02 | 500 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE, PLASTIC (24979-232... | Potassium Chloride Extended-Release | Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC | 2023-04-10 |
| 33342-0417-11 | 100 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (33342... | Potassium chloride | Macleods Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2024-09-08 |
| 33342-0417-12 | 10 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (33342-417-12) / 10 TABLET, FIL... | Potassium chloride | Macleods Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2024-09-08 |
| 33342-0417-15 | 500 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (33342... | Potassium chloride | Macleods Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2024-09-08 |
| 33342-0417-34 | 10 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (33342-417-34) / 7 TABLET, FILM... | Potassium chloride | Macleods Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2024-09-08 |
| 33342-0418-11 | 100 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (33342... | Potassium chloride | Macleods Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2024-09-08 |
| 33342-0418-12 | 10 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (33342-418-12) / 10 TABLET, FIL... | Potassium chloride | Macleods Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2024-09-08 |
| 33342-0418-15 | 500 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (33342... | Potassium chloride | Macleods Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2024-09-08 |
| 33342-0418-34 | 10 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (33342-418-34) / 7 TABLET, FILM... | Potassium chloride | Macleods Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2024-09-08 |
| 42291-0487-01 | 100 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (42291-487-01) | Potassium Chloride | AvKARE | 2025-08-08 |
| 42291-0487-50 | 500 TABLET, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (42291-487-50) | Potassium Chloride | AvKARE | 2025-08-08 |
| 42291-0506-01 | 100 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (42291... | Potassium Chloride | AvKARE | 2019-06-21 |
| 42291-0506-50 | 500 TABLET, FILM COATED, EXTENDED RELEASE in 1 BOTTLE (42291... | Potassium Chloride | AvKARE | 2019-06-21 |
Observed labelers:
Aphena Pharma Solutions - Tennessee, LLC (33) ·
A-S Medication Solutions (25) ·
Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC (25) ·
Bryant Ranch Prepack (15) ·
Granules Pharmaceuticals Inc. (10) ·
Slate Run Pharmaceuticals, LLC (10)
· +19 more — 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.
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