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Besifloxacin 6 MG/ML Ophthalmic Suspension [Besivance] — RxCUI 850309

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic branded drug
RxCUI 850309 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

RxCUI850309
Official nameBesifloxacin 6 MG/ML Ophthalmic Suspension [Besivance]
Concept typeSemantic branded drug (SBD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asBesivance 0.6 % Ophthalmic Suspension; Besivance 6 MG/ML Ophthalmic Suspension
FDA products mapped1
Package NDCs mapped2
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)330 prescriptions · 4 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 Besifloxacin Ophthalmic: what it is, how it’s used, side effects, and interactions.

📗 Our plain-language guide HelloPharmacist
  • Not all pink eye is the same. Besivance only treats bacterial conjunctivitis — the type caused by bacteria. It won't work on viral pink eye (which is much more common and usually g...
  • What exactly is Besivance treating — is all pink eye the same?
  • Before each dose, turn the bottle upside down and give it one shake to mix the liquid — this is important because it's a suspension. Then tilt your head back, gently pull down your...
  • No — you should not wear contact lenses while you have bacterial conjunctivitis or during the entire 7-day course of Besivance. Wearing contacts during an eye infection can make th...
📖 Read our full Besifloxacin Ophthalmic guide →

🕸️ Concept Web — How Besifloxacin 6 MG/ML Ophthalmic Suspension [Besi... 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 Besifloxacin 6 MG/ML Ophthalmic Suspension [Besivance] RxCUI 850309

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.

    • Besifloxacin 819911
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Besivance 850306
  3. Dose forms 6

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

    • Besifloxacin Ophthalmic Suspension 850304
    • Besifloxacin Ophthalmic Product 1160556
    • Besifloxacin Ophthalmic Suspension [Besivance] 850308
    • Besivance Ophthalmic Product 1172220
    • Ophthalmic Suspension 316964
    • Ophthalmic Product 1151135
  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 — 11 of 11 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

  • Besifloxacin 6 MG/ML [Besivance] SBDC · 850307
  • Besifloxacin Ophthalmic Suspension [Besivance] SBDF · 850308
  • Besivance Ophthalmic Product SBDG · 1172220
  • Besivance BN · 850306

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

1 product · 2 package NDCs
2 package NDCs map to RxCUI 850309 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
24208-0446-02 1 BOTTLE, DROPPER in 1 CARTON (24208-446-02) / 2 mL in 1 BO... Besivance Bausch & Lomb Incorporated 2009-05-28
24208-0446-05 1 BOTTLE, DROPPER in 1 CARTON (24208-446-05) / 5 mL in 1 BO... Besivance Bausch & Lomb Incorporated 2009-05-28
Observed labelers: Bausch & Lomb Incorporated (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 ml · median
$44.0931
Range $44.0931–$44.0931 · middle 50% $44.0931–$44.0931 · 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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