The change is part of an update by the Food and Drug Administration to standardise the drug codes used to identify medicines in the US.

The July 1 quarterly HCPCS Level II update includes several drug/biological code changes, according to an AAPC release. Effective July 1, the HCPCS Level II code J7184 will be replaced with Q2041 ...

Schematic diagram of the method of mapping Japanese and international drug codes. (a) To extract the correspondence table between the YJ code of the Japanese drug code and the National Drug Code (NDC) ...