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Metformin hydrochloride 1000 MG Oral Tablet — RxCUI 861004

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 861004 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 168 FDA products 561 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

RxCUI861004
Official nameMetformin hydrochloride 1000 MG Oral Tablet
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asmetformin HCl 1 GM Oral Tablet; metFORMIN HCl 1000 MG Oral Tablet
FDA products mapped168
Package NDCs mapped561
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)6,116,370 prescriptions · 52 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Metformin hydrochloride 1000 MG Oral Tablet 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 Metformin hydrochloride 1000 MG Oral Tablet RxCUI 861004

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

  1. Ingredients 2

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

    • Metformin 6809
    • Metformin hydrochloride 235743
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Glucophage 151827
  3. Dose forms 13

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

    • Metformin Oral Tablet 372803
    • Metformin hydrochloride Oral Tablet 2646570
    • Metformin Oral Product 1161610
    • Metformin Pill 1161611
    • Metformin hydrochloride Oral Product 2662334
    • Metformin hydrochloride Pill 2661451
    • Metformin Oral Tablet [Glucophage] 368254
    • Metformin hydrochloride Oral Tablet [Glucophage] 2656131
    • +5 more in this family
  4. Clinical & branded drugs 3

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

    • Metformin hydrochloride 1000 MG 860995
    • Metformin hydrochloride 1000 MG Oral Tablet [Glucophage] 861006
    • Metformin hydrochloride 1000 MG [Glucophage] 861005

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 14 of 19 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

  • Metformin hydrochloride 1000 MG SCDC · 860995
  • Metformin Oral Tablet SCDF · 372803
  • Metformin hydrochloride Oral Tablet SCDFP · 2646570
  • Metformin Oral Product SCDG · 1161610
  • Metformin Pill SCDG · 1161611
  • Metformin hydrochloride Oral Product SCDGP · 2662334
  • Metformin hydrochloride Pill SCDGP · 2661451

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Metformin hydrochloride 1000 MG Oral Tablet [Glucophage] SBD · 861006
  • Metformin hydrochloride 1000 MG [Glucophage] SBDC · 861005
  • Metformin Oral Tablet [Glucophage] SBDF · 368254
  • Metformin hydrochloride Oral Tablet [Glucophage] SBDFP · 2656131
  • Glucophage Oral Product SBDG · 1171244
  • Glucophage Pill SBDG · 1171245
  • Glucophage BN · 151827

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

168 products · 561 package NDCs
561 package NDCs map to RxCUI 861004 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
83301-0008-01 100 TABLET, COATED in 1 BOTTLE (83301-0008-1) Metformin Hydrochloride Mullan Pharmaceutical Inc. 2024-01-01
83301-0008-02 500 TABLET, COATED in 1 BOTTLE (83301-0008-2) Metformin Hydrochloride Mullan Pharmaceutical Inc. 2024-01-01
83301-0008-03 1000 TABLET, COATED in 1 BOTTLE (83301-0008-3) Metformin Hydrochloride Mullan Pharmaceutical Inc. 2024-01-01
83301-0009-01 100 TABLET, COATED in 1 BOTTLE (83301-0009-1) Metformin Hydrochloride Mullan Pharmaceutical Inc. 2024-01-01
83301-0009-02 500 TABLET, COATED in 1 BOTTLE (83301-0009-2) Metformin Hydrochloride Mullan Pharmaceutical Inc. 2024-01-01
83301-0009-03 1000 TABLET, COATED in 1 BOTTLE (83301-0009-3) Metformin Hydrochloride Mullan Pharmaceutical Inc. 2024-01-01
83301-0010-01 100 TABLET, COATED in 1 BOTTLE (83301-0010-1) Metformin Hydrochloride Mullan Pharmaceutical Inc. 2024-01-01
83301-0010-02 500 TABLET, COATED in 1 BOTTLE (83301-0010-2) Metformin Hydrochloride Mullan Pharmaceutical Inc. 2024-01-01
83301-0010-03 1000 TABLET, COATED in 1 BOTTLE (83301-0010-3) Metformin Hydrochloride Mullan Pharmaceutical Inc. 2024-01-01
87441-0054-01 30 TABLET in 1 BLISTER PACK (87441-054-01) Metformin Hydrochloride Unit Dose Solutions, Inc. 2026-06-26
87441-0055-01 30 TABLET in 1 BLISTER PACK (87441-055-01) Metformin HCl Unit Dose Solutions, Inc. 2026-06-26
Observed labelers: Proficient Rx LP (51) · A-S Medication Solutions (47) · Ascend Laboratories, LLC (40) · Aphena Pharma Solutions - Tennessee, LLC (35) · Aurobindo Pharma Limited (24) · Bryant Ranch Prepack (22) · +41 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.
  • 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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