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Colesevelam hydrochloride 3750 MG Powder for Oral Suspension [Welchol] — RxCUI 866907

Name: Colesevelam hydrochloride 3750 MG Powder for Oral Suspension [Welchol] (RxCUI 866907)
Creator: Brian Staiger, PharmD

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic branded drug

RxCUI 866907 Semantic branded drug · SBD ● Current RxNorm concept 2 FDA products 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

RxCUI866907

Official nameColesevelam hydrochloride 3750 MG Powder for Oral Suspension [Welchol]

Concept typeSemantic branded drug (SBD)

RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept

Also known asWelchol 3.75 GM Powder for Oral Suspension; Welchol 3750 MG Powder for Oral Suspension

FDA products mapped2

Package NDCs mapped2

Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)608 prescriptions · 9 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025

RxNorm release07/06/2026

Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Colesevelam hydrochloride 3750 MG Powder for Ora... 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 Colesevelam hydrochloride 3750 MG Powder for Oral Suspension [Welchol] RxCUI 866907 Semantic branded drug · SBD

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.
- Colesevelam 141626 IN
- Colesevelam hydrochloride 141625 PIN
Brand names 1

The same medicine's trade names. A brand name alone says nothing about strength or form.
- Welchol 284918 BN
Dose forms 13

The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.
- Colesevelam Powder for Oral Suspension 1870338 SCDF
- Colesevelam hydrochloride Powder for Oral Suspension 2648674 SCDFP
- Colesevelam Oral Powder Product 1870337 SCDG
- Colesevelam Oral Product 1164984 SCDG
- Colesevelam hydrochloride Oral Powder Product 2662961 SCDGP
- Colesevelam hydrochloride Oral Product 2661751 SCDGP
- Colesevelam Powder for Oral Suspension [Welchol] 1870341 SBDF
- Colesevelam hydrochloride Powder for Oral Suspension [Welchol] 2656730 SBDFP
- +5 more in this family
Clinical & branded drugs 3

Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.
- Colesevelam hydrochloride 3750 MG Powder for Oral Suspension 866905 SCD
- Colesevelam hydrochloride 3750 MG 1870336 SCDC
- Colesevelam hydrochloride 3750 MG [Welchol] 1870340 SBDC

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

Colesevelam hydrochloride 3750 MG Powder for Oral Suspension SCD · 866905
Colesevelam hydrochloride 3750 MG SCDC · 1870336
Colesevelam Powder for Oral Suspension SCDF · 1870338
Colesevelam hydrochloride Powder for Oral Suspension SCDFP · 2648674
Colesevelam Oral Powder Product SCDG · 1870337
Colesevelam Oral Product SCDG · 1164984
Colesevelam hydrochloride Oral Powder Product SCDGP · 2662961
Colesevelam hydrochloride Oral Product SCDGP · 2661751

Brand-Name Concepts

Colesevelam hydrochloride 3750 MG [Welchol] SBDC · 1870340
Colesevelam Powder for Oral Suspension [Welchol] SBDF · 1870341
Colesevelam hydrochloride Powder for Oral Suspension [Welchol] SBDFP · 2656730
Welchol Oral Powder Product SBDG · 1870342
Welchol Oral Product SBDG · 1187941
Welchol BN · 284918

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

2 products · 2 package NDCs

2 package NDCs map to RxCUI 866907 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
00713-0879-81	180 TABLET, FILM COATED in 1 BOTTLE (0713-0879-81)	Welchol	Cosette Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2022-09-01
00713-0880-30	30 PACKET in 1 CARTON (0713-0880-30) / 1 FOR SUSPENSION in...	Welchol	Cosette Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2022-09-01

Observed labelers: Cosette Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (2) — 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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