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Pentamidine isethionate 50 MG/ML Inhalation Solution — RxCUI 861597

Name: Pentamidine isethionate 50 MG/ML Inhalation Solution (RxCUI 861597)
Creator: Brian Staiger, PharmD

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug

RxCUI 861597 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 4 FDA products 4 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

RxCUI861597

Official namePentamidine isethionate 50 MG/ML Inhalation Solution

Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)

RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept

Also known aspentamidine isethionate 300 MG Inhalation Solution; pentamidine isethionate 300 MG per 6 ML Inhalation Solution

FDA products mapped4

Package NDCs mapped4

Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)341 prescriptions · 7 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025

RxNorm release07/06/2026

Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Pentamidine isethionate 50 MG/ML Inhalation Solu... 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 Pentamidine isethionate 50 MG/ML Inhalation Solution RxCUI 861597 Semantic clinical drug · SCD

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

Ingredients 2

The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.
- Pentamidine 7994 IN
- Pentamidine isethionate 7995 PIN
Brand names 1

The same medicine's trade names. A brand name alone says nothing about strength or form.
- NebuPent 218646 BN
Dose forms 9

The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.
- Pentamidine Inhalation Solution 2108335 SCDF
- Pentamidine isethionate Inhalation Solution 2646419 SCDFP
- Pentamidine Inhalant Product 1164780 SCDG
- Pentamidine isethionate Inhalant Product 2659712 SCDGP
- Pentamidine Inhalation Solution [NebuPent] 2108337 SBDF
- Pentamidine isethionate Inhalation Solution [NebuPent] 2658406 SBDFP
- NebuPent Inhalant Product 1180506 SBDG
- Inhalation Solution 346161 DF
- +1 more in this family
Clinical & branded drugs 3

Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.
- Pentamidine isethionate 50 MG/ML 861596 SCDC
- Pentamidine isethionate 50 MG/ML Inhalation Solution [NebuPent] 861599 SBD
- Pentamidine isethionate 50 MG/ML [NebuPent] 861598 SBDC

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 14 of 15 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

Pentamidine isethionate 50 MG/ML SCDC · 861596
Pentamidine Inhalation Solution SCDF · 2108335
Pentamidine isethionate Inhalation Solution SCDFP · 2646419
Pentamidine Inhalant Product SCDG · 1164780
Pentamidine isethionate Inhalant Product SCDGP · 2659712

Brand-Name Concepts

Pentamidine isethionate 50 MG/ML Inhalation Solution [NebuPent] SBD · 861599
Pentamidine isethionate 50 MG/ML [NebuPent] SBDC · 861598
Pentamidine Inhalation Solution [NebuPent] SBDF · 2108337
Pentamidine isethionate Inhalation Solution [NebuPent] SBDFP · 2658406
NebuPent Inhalant Product SBDG · 1180506
NebuPent BN · 218646

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

4 products · 4 package NDCs

4 package NDCs map to RxCUI 861597 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
00121-1102-55	1 VIAL in 1 CARTON (0121-1102-55) / 300 mg in 1 VIAL	Pentamidine Isethionate	PAI Holdings, LLC dba PAI Pharma	2026-06-12
13925-0522-01	1 VIAL in 1 CARTON (13925-522-01) / 300 mg in 1 VIAL	Pentamidine Isethionate	Seton Pharmaceuticals	2019-10-14
39822-3030-02	1 VIAL, SINGLE-DOSE in 1 CARTON (39822-3030-2) / 6 mL in 1...	Pentamidine Isethionate	XGen Pharmaceuticals DJB, Inc.	2023-04-04
63323-0877-15	1 VIAL, SINGLE-DOSE in 1 CARTON (63323-877-15) / 6 mL in 1...	NebuPent	Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC	2011-02-15

Observed labelers: Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC (1) · PAI Holdings, LLC dba PAI Pharma (1) · Seton Pharmaceuticals (1) · XGen Pharmaceuticals DJB, Inc. (1) — 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
J2545	Pentamidine non-comp unit	3	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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