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Dexamethasone 0.7 MG Drug Implant — RxCUI 854177

Name: Dexamethasone 0.7 MG Drug Implant (RxCUI 854177)
Creator: Brian Staiger, PharmD

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug

RxCUI 854177 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 1 FDA product 2 package NDCs Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

This page is curated, coded, and maintained by Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD

Compiled from public NLM RxNorm and FDA (openFDA NDC directory) data sources. Editorial policy

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

RxCUI854177

Official nameDexamethasone 0.7 MG Drug Implant

Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)

RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept

Also known asdexamethasone 0.7 MG Intraocular Drug Implant; dexAMETHasone 0.7 MG Intravitreal Drug Implant

FDA products mapped1

Package NDCs mapped2

Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)5,914 prescriptions · 34 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025

RxNorm release07/06/2026

Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Dexamethasone 0.7 MG Drug Implant 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 Dexamethasone 0.7 MG Drug Implant RxCUI 854177 Semantic clinical drug · SCD

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

Ingredients 1

The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.
- Dexamethasone 3264 IN
Brand names 1

The same medicine's trade names. A brand name alone says nothing about strength or form.
- Ozurdex 854178 BN
Dose forms 6

The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.
- Dexamethasone Drug Implant 854176 SCDF
- Dexamethasone Drug Implant Product 1154529 SCDG
- Dexamethasone Drug Implant [Ozurdex] 854180 SBDF
- Ozurdex Drug Implant Product 1177629 SBDG
- Drug Implant 657710 DF
- Drug Implant Product 1151136 DFG
Clinical & branded drugs 3

Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.
- Dexamethasone 0.7 MG 854175 SCDC
- Dexamethasone 0.7 MG Drug Implant [Ozurdex] 854181 SBD
- Dexamethasone 0.7 MG [Ozurdex] 854179 SBDC

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

Dexamethasone 0.7 MG SCDC · 854175
Dexamethasone Drug Implant SCDF · 854176
Dexamethasone Drug Implant Product SCDG · 1154529

Brand-Name Concepts

Dexamethasone 0.7 MG Drug Implant [Ozurdex] SBD · 854181
Dexamethasone 0.7 MG [Ozurdex] SBDC · 854179
Dexamethasone Drug Implant [Ozurdex] SBDF · 854180
Ozurdex Drug Implant Product SBDG · 1177629
Ozurdex BN · 854178

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

1 product · 2 package NDCs

2 package NDCs map to RxCUI 854177 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
00023-3348-07	1 POUCH in 1 CARTON (0023-3348-07) / 1 IMPLANT in 1 POUCH	OZURDEX	Allergan, Inc.	2009-09-01
00023-3348-08	1 POUCH in 1 CARTON (0023-3348-08) / 1 IMPLANT in 1 POUCH	OZURDEX	Allergan, Inc.	2009-09-01

Observed labelers: Allergan, Inc. (2) — this is the FDA-listed mapping footprint, not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

🧾 Billing Codes (HCPCS)

Medical billing codes (HCPCS "J-codes") that connect to this concept's packages — used mostly when a clinic or hospital bills for a drug it administers. Each code links to its full billing page.

Code	Descriptor	Mapped packages	Sources
J7312	Dexamethasone intra implant	1	CMS

⚠ A crosswalk is not coverage: an NDC↔HCPCS mapping does not guarantee any payer covers or pays the code. Always verify the current payer policy before billing.

🗃️ 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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