Practice medications represent a medication that can be used for a prescription or a documented med that does not come from the standard formulary.

Thus it has no coding for an NDC or RxNorm.

Here is an example:

{
    "id": 142348815630383,
    "rxnorm_cuis": [],
    "ndcs": [],
    "name": "digital",
    "brand_name": "digital",
    "generic_name": "",
    "is_controlled": false,
    "type": "prescription",
    "route": null,
    "strength": "40mg",
    "form": null,
    "practice": 75435474948,
    "created_date": "2024-04-19T21:26:44Z",
    "creation_type": "user",
    "market_end_date": null,
    "obsolete_date": null
}

Obsoletion

Practice medications cannot be deleted, as they may be referenced by a prescription or documented med. But if you don't want the practice medication to appear when a user searches then you can mark the practice medication as obsolete by setting the obsolete_date to a non-null date in the past.

Here is an example:

{
    "id": 142348815630383,
    "rxnorm_cuis": [],
    "ndcs": [],
    "name": "digital",
    "brand_name": "digital",
    "generic_name": "",
    "is_controlled": false,
    "type": "prescription",
    "route": null,
    "strength": "40mg",
    "form": null,
    "practice": 75435474948,
    "created_date": "2024-04-19T21:26:44Z",
    "creation_type": "user",
    "market_end_date": null,
    "obsolete_date": "2024-04-19T21:43:13Z"
}