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Estradiol 0.01 MG Vaginal Insert [Vagifem] — RxCUI 884709

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic branded drug
RxCUI 884709 Semantic branded drug · SBD ● Current RxNorm concept 1 FDA product 3 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

RxCUI884709
Official nameEstradiol 0.01 MG Vaginal Insert [Vagifem]
Concept typeSemantic branded drug (SBD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asVagifem 0.01 MG Vaginal Insert; Vagifem 10 MCG Vaginal Insert; Vagifem 10 MCG (as estradiol hemihydrate 10.3 MCG) Vaginal Insert
FDA products mapped1
Package NDCs mapped3
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)7,095 prescriptions · 12 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Estradiol 0.01 MG Vaginal Insert [Vagifem] 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 Estradiol 0.01 MG Vaginal Insert [Vagifem] RxCUI 884709

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.

    • Estradiol 4083
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Vagifem 152483
  3. Dose forms 6

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

    • Estradiol Vaginal Insert 2109138
    • Estradiol Vaginal Product 1165763
    • Estradiol Vaginal Insert [Vagifem] 2109141
    • Vagifem Vaginal Product 1187123
    • Vaginal Insert 2107950
    • Vaginal Product 1151125
  4. Clinical & branded drugs 3

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

  5. Packs 2

    Fixed collections of drugs packaged and sold together, like dose packs.

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 13 of 13 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

  • Estradiol 0.01 MG [Vagifem] SBDC · 884708
  • Estradiol Vaginal Insert [Vagifem] SBDF · 2109141
  • Vagifem Vaginal Product SBDG · 1187123
  • Vagifem BN · 152483

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

1 product · 3 package NDCs
3 package NDCs map to RxCUI 884709 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
00169-5176-03 8 APPLICATOR in 1 CARTON (0169-5176-03) / 1 INSERT in 1 APP... Vagifem Novo Nordisk 2010-01-11
00169-5176-04 18 APPLICATOR in 1 CARTON (0169-5176-04) / 1 INSERT in 1 AP... Vagifem Novo Nordisk 2010-01-11
00169-5176-99 6 APPLICATOR in 1 CARTON (0169-5176-99) / 1 INSERT in 1 APP... Vagifem Novo Nordisk 2010-01-11
Observed labelers: Novo Nordisk (3) — 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 ea · median
$20.3267
Range $20.3267–$20.3267 · middle 50% $20.3267–$20.3267 · 2 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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