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Dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride 10 MG Oral Tablet [Focalin] — RxCUI 899549

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic branded drug
RxCUI 899549 Semantic branded drug · SBD ● Current RxNorm concept 6 FDA products 4 package NDCs Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

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🗂️ Key Facts

RxCUI899549
Official nameDexmethylphenidate hydrochloride 10 MG Oral Tablet [Focalin]
Concept typeSemantic branded drug (SBD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asFocalin 10 MG Oral Tablet
FDA products mapped6
Package NDCs mapped4
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)5,493 prescriptions · 17 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride 10 MG Oral Tabl... 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 Dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride 10 MG Oral Tablet [Focalin] RxCUI 899549

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.

    • Dexmethylphenidate 352372
    • Dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride 353105
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Focalin 352654
  3. Dose forms 13

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

    • Dexmethylphenidate Oral Tablet 378713
    • Dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride Oral Tablet 2648102
    • Dexmethylphenidate Oral Product 1157802
    • Dexmethylphenidate Pill 1158298
    • Dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride Oral Product 2662739
    • Dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride Pill 2659215
    • Dexmethylphenidate Oral Tablet [Focalin] 369443
    • Dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride Oral Tablet [Focalin] 2654625
    • +5 more in this family
  4. Clinical & branded drugs 3

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

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

  • Dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride 10 MG Oral Tablet SCD · 899548
  • Dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride 10 MG SCDC · 899438
  • Dexmethylphenidate Oral Tablet SCDF · 378713
  • Dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride Oral Tablet SCDFP · 2648102
  • Dexmethylphenidate Oral Product SCDG · 1157802
  • Dexmethylphenidate Pill SCDG · 1158298
  • Dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride Oral Product SCDGP · 2662739
  • Dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride Pill SCDGP · 2659215

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride 10 MG [Focalin] SBDC · 899440
  • Dexmethylphenidate Oral Tablet [Focalin] SBDF · 369443
  • Dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride Oral Tablet [Focalin] SBDFP · 2654625
  • Focalin Oral Product SBDG · 1171880
  • Focalin Pill SBDG · 1171881
  • Focalin BN · 352654

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

6 products · 4 package NDCs
4 package NDCs map to RxCUI 899549 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
00078-0381-05 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (0078-0381-05) Focalin Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation 2001-11-30
66758-0250-01 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (66758-250-01) Focalin Sandoz Inc 2024-08-16
66758-0251-01 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (66758-251-01) Focalin Sandoz Inc 2025-03-01
66758-0252-01 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (66758-252-01) Focalin Sandoz Inc 2024-07-12
Observed labelers: Sandoz Inc (3) · Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (1) — 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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