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Memantine hydrochloride 5 MG Oral Tablet — RxCUI 996571

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 996571 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 65 FDA products 166 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

RxCUI996571
Official nameMemantine hydrochloride 5 MG Oral Tablet
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asmemantine HCl 5 MG Oral Tablet
FDA products mapped65
Package NDCs mapped166
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)246,618 prescriptions · 50 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Memantine hydrochloride 5 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 Memantine hydrochloride 5 MG Oral Tablet RxCUI 996571

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.

    • Memantine 6719
    • Memantine hydrochloride 236685
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Namenda 405206
  3. Dose forms 13

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

    • Memantine Oral Tablet 372757
    • Memantine hydrochloride Oral Tablet 2649110
    • Memantine Oral Product 1159792
    • Memantine Pill 1159793
    • Memantine hydrochloride Oral Product 2660255
    • Memantine hydrochloride Pill 2660593
    • Memantine Oral Tablet [Namenda] 406108
    • Memantine hydrochloride Oral Tablet [Namenda] 2658795
    • +5 more in this family
  4. Clinical & branded drugs 3

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

    • Memantine hydrochloride 5 MG 996570
    • Memantine hydrochloride 5 MG Oral Tablet [Namenda] 996574
    • Memantine hydrochloride 5 MG [Namenda] 996573
  5. Packs 2

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

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 16 of 21 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

  • Memantine hydrochloride 5 MG Oral Tablet [Namenda] SBD · 996574
  • Memantine hydrochloride 5 MG [Namenda] SBDC · 996573
  • Memantine Oral Tablet [Namenda] SBDF · 406108
  • Memantine hydrochloride Oral Tablet [Namenda] SBDFP · 2658795
  • Namenda Oral Product SBDG · 1178754
  • Namenda Pill SBDG · 1178755
  • Namenda BN · 405206
  • {21 (memantine hydrochloride 10 MG Oral Tablet [Namenda]) / 28 (memantine hydrochloride 5 MG Oral Tablet [Namenda]) } Pack [Namenda 49 Titration Pack] BPCK · 996634

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

65 products · 166 package NDCs
166 package NDCs map to RxCUI 996571 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
72189-0294-30 30 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (72189-294-30) MEMANTINE HYDROCHLORIDE DirectRx 2021-11-11
72189-0294-60 60 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (72189-294-60) MEMANTINE HYDROCHLORIDE DirectRx 2021-11-11
72189-0294-90 90 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (72189-294-90) MEMANTINE HYDROCHLORIDE DirectRx 2021-11-11
72578-0003-01 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (72578-003-01) Memantine Hydrochloride Viona Pharmaceuticals Inc 2019-02-28
72578-0003-05 500 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (72578-003-05) Memantine Hydrochloride Viona Pharmaceuticals Inc 2019-02-28
72578-0003-10 1000 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (72578-003-10) Memantine Hydrochloride Viona Pharmaceuticals Inc 2019-02-28
72578-0003-14 60 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (72578-003-14) Memantine Hydrochloride Viona Pharmaceuticals Inc 2019-02-28
72578-0003-77 10 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (72578-003-77) / 10 TABLET in 1... Memantine Hydrochloride Viona Pharmaceuticals Inc 2019-02-28
72578-0004-01 100 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (72578-004-01) Memantine Hydrochloride Viona Pharmaceuticals Inc 2019-02-28
72578-0004-05 500 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (72578-004-05) Memantine Hydrochloride Viona Pharmaceuticals Inc 2019-02-28
72578-0004-10 1000 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (72578-004-10) Memantine Hydrochloride Viona Pharmaceuticals Inc 2019-02-28
72578-0004-14 60 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (72578-004-14) Memantine Hydrochloride Viona Pharmaceuticals Inc 2019-02-28
72578-0004-77 10 BLISTER PACK in 1 CARTON (72578-004-77) / 10 TABLET in 1... Memantine Hydrochloride Viona Pharmaceuticals Inc 2019-02-28
72603-0118-01 60 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (72603-118-01) Memantine NorthStar RxLLC 2022-09-13
72603-0119-01 60 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (72603-119-01) Memantine NorthStar RxLLC 2022-09-13
72603-0119-02 500 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (72603-119-02) Memantine NorthStar RxLLC 2022-09-13
Observed labelers: Alembic Pharmaceuticals Inc. (14) · Alembic Pharmaceuticals Limited (14) · Dr. Reddys Laboratories Limited (12) · Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. (10) · Viona Pharmaceuticals Inc (10) · Zydus Lifesciences Limited (10) · +25 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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