US National Drug Code (NDC)

ID us_ndc

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Ten-digit identifier of a drug package listed with the US Food and Drug Administration. It has three segments: the labeler code assigned by the FDA, the product code and the package code, both assigned by the labeler. The official form separates the segments with hyphens in one of the configurations 4-4-2, 5-3-2, 5-4-1, 6-3-2 or 6-4-1. Claims data under HIPAA use an 11-digit form without hyphens that pads the segments with zeros to 5-4-2.

Categories: Medical/pharma identifiers
Countries: United States
Languages: Common to most languages
Bioregistry: ndc
Quality: 95/100 · missing: translation
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: Amazon Macie, AWS Glue Sensitive Data Detection, Collibra Data Classification, IBM Knowledge Catalog (IBM watsonx.data intelligence), Nightfall AI

Regular expression

^(?:\d{4}-\d{4}-\d{2}|\d{5}-\d{3}-\d{2}|\d{5}-\d{4}-\d|\d{6}-\d{3}-\d{2}|\d{6}-\d{4}-\d|\d{11})$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
50242-090-02	Zelboraf (vemurafenib), 5-3-2 configuration
0009-0417-01	Depo-Testosterone, 4-4-2 configuration
00009041701	The same package in the 11-digit HIPAA form
50242-090 invalid	Labeler and product only; the package code is missing

Sources

wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_drug_code
doc: https://open.fda.gov/apis/drug/ndc/

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