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Betamethasone 0.5 MG/ML / calcipotriene 0.05 MG/ML Topical Lotion [Taclonex] — RxCUI 833463

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic branded drug
RxCUI 833463 Semantic branded drug · SBD ● Current RxNorm concept 1 FDA product 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

RxCUI833463
Official nameBetamethasone 0.5 MG/ML / calcipotriene 0.05 MG/ML Topical Lotion [Taclonex]
Concept typeSemantic branded drug (SBD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asTaclonex Scalp (calcipotriene 0.005 % / betamethasone 0.05 % (betamethasone dipropionate 0.064 % ) ) Topical Suspension; Taclonex Scalp (calcipotriene 0.005 % / betamethasone dipropionate 0.064 % ) Topical Suspension
FDA products mapped1
Package NDCs mapped2
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)311 prescriptions · 5 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Betamethasone 0.5 MG/ML / calcipotriene 0.05 MG/... 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 Betamethasone 0.5 MG/ML / calcipotriene 0.05 MG/ML Topical Lotion [Taclonex] RxCUI 833463

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

  1. Ingredients 3

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

    • Betamethasone 1514
    • Calcipotriene 29365
    • Betamethasone / calcipotriene 690419
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Taclonex 748281
  3. Dose forms 6

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

    • Betamethasone / calcipotriene Topical Lotion 797234
    • Betamethasone / calcipotriene Topical Product 1153789
    • Betamethasone / calcipotriene Topical Lotion [Taclonex] 828645
    • Taclonex Topical Product 1177831
    • Topical Lotion 316983
    • Topical Product 1151122
  4. Clinical & branded drugs 4

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

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 14 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

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Betamethasone 0.5 MG/ML / calcipotriene 0.05 MG/ML [Taclonex] SBDC · 833462
  • Betamethasone / calcipotriene Topical Lotion [Taclonex] SBDF · 828645
  • Taclonex Topical Product SBDG · 1177831
  • Taclonex BN · 748281

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

1 product · 2 package NDCs
2 package NDCs map to RxCUI 833463 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
50222-0501-06 40 CARTON in 1 CASE (50222-501-06) / 1 BOTTLE in 1 CARTON /... TACLONEX LEO Pharma Inc. 2008-06-01
50222-0501-66 10 PACKAGE in 1 BOX (50222-501-66) / 2 BOTTLE in 1 PACKAGE... TACLONEX LEO Pharma Inc. 2008-06-01
Observed labelers: LEO Pharma Inc. (2) — this is the FDA-listed mapping footprint, not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

💲 Pricing (NADAC)

NADAC is CMS's National Average Drug Acquisition Cost — roughly what pharmacies pay to buy the drug. It is an acquisition benchmark, not your copay.
Per gm · median
$20.6968
Range $20.6968–$20.6968 · middle 50% $20.6968–$20.6968 · 1 NDCs
Latest compatible distributions from the CMS NADAC file · dataset watermark 2026-07-10. Prices vary by package and pharmacy; a distribution is shown instead of one misleading number. Rows the dataset is silent on carry no price. No zero-cost conclusion should be drawn.

🗃️ 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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