Bethanechol Chloride
Brand names: Bethanechol Chloride
At a glance
- Medicare prescriptions, 2024
- 128,857
- Medicare drug cost
- $7.1M
- Average cost per prescription
- $55.31
- Clinicians who prescribed it
- 4,483
Where it is prescribed
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What it is used for
Bethanechol chloride tablets are indicated for the treatment of acute postoperative and postpartum nonobstructive (functional) urinary retention and for neurogenic atony of the urinary bladder with retention.
From the FDA-approved prescribing information (label dated January 2026). Full labels on DailyMed (opens in a new tab)
Who prescribes it
- Urology 26.5%
- Internal Medicine 21.3%
- Family Medicine 15.2%
- Nurse Practitioners 14.9%
- Physician Assistants 5.3%
- Gastroenterology 4.5%
- Geriatric Medicine 3.5%
- General Practice 1.7%
- OB-GYN (Obstetrics & Gynecology) 1.5%
- Urogynecology 0.8%
- Hospitalist 0.7%
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) 0.5%
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Share of Medicare prescriptions written by each specialty. Select one to list its prescribers.
Trend, 2019–2024
Medicare prescriptions fell 16% from 2019 to 2024.
Biggest change by state since 2019
- Puerto Rico +65%
- Alabama −1%
- Illinois −8%
- Florida −9%
- Georgia −10%
- Louisiana (smallest change) −38%
- Tennessee (smallest change) −33%
From CMS’s yearly state and national Part D summaries, which count every prescriber, including those CMS leaves out of its per-clinician data (fewer than 11 prescriptions). That is why these totals are higher than the count at the top of this page. Prescriptions include refills.
What it looks like
Pills from 5 makers on file. The same medicine can look different depending on who made it, so check the imprint (the letters and numbers on the pill) with your pharmacist if a refill looks different.
American Health PAckaging
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 10 mg | white round tablet, 11 mm, scored to split in 2 | AN 572 |
| 25 mg | yellow round tablet, 11 mm, scored to split in 2 | AN 573 |
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 5 mg | white round tablet, 11 mm | AN 571 |
| 10 mg | white round tablet, 11 mm | AN 572 |
| 25 mg | yellow round tablet, 11 mm | AN 573 |
| 50 mg | yellow round tablet, 11 mm | AN 574 |
Amneal Pharmaceuticals of New York LLC
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 5 mg | white round tablet, 11 mm, scored to split in 2 | AN 571 |
| 10 mg | white round tablet, 11 mm, scored to split in 2 | AN 572 |
| 25 mg | yellow round tablet, 11 mm, scored to split in 2 | AN 573 |
| 50 mg | yellow round tablet, 11 mm, scored to split in 2 | AN 574 |
Heritage Pharma Labs Inc. D/b/a Avet Pharmaceuticals Labs Inc.
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 5 mg | white round tablet, 6 mm, scored to split in 2 | 934 |
| 10 mg | white round tablet, 8 mm, scored to split in 2 | 935 |
| 25 mg | white round tablet, 9 mm, scored to split in 2 | 936 |
| 50 mg | white round tablet, 11 mm, scored to split in 2 | 937 |
Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC
| Strength | Looks like | Imprint |
|---|---|---|
| 5 mg | white round tablet, 11 mm, scored to split in 2 | BCL 5 832 |
| 10 mg | white round tablet, 11 mm, scored to split in 2 | BCL 10 832 |
| 25 mg | yellow round tablet, 11 mm, scored to split in 2 | BCL 25 832 |
| 50 mg | yellow round tablet, 11 mm, scored to split in 2 | BCL 50 832 |
Source: DailyMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine), from each maker’s FDA drug listing. A few makers are shown, not every one. Never take a pill you can’t identify; ask a pharmacist.
Industry payments about this drug
No industry payments to clinicians named this drug in 2025.
Recalls and shortages
Not on the FDA drug shortage list.
No FDA-reported recalls since 2020.
Sources: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider and Drug (2024; prescriptions include refills, and CMS hides counts under 11 per prescriber); U.S. Food and Drug Administration, openFDA (drug labels, NDC directory, enforcement reports, drug shortages); CMS Open Payments 2025; ClinicalTrials.gov. General information only, not medical advice; not yet reviewed by our medical reviewer.