Compounding pharmacies fall into two regulatory categories. 503A pharmacies compound for individually identified patients against a specific prescription. 503B outsourcing facilities register with the FDA and may compound in larger batches.
In direct-to-consumer telehealth, compounding is what makes combination formulations, alternative dose forms and personalised strengths possible.
Not every compound can be prepared, and availability changes with regulatory conditions and supply. A network that routes across many pharmacies absorbs that variability far better than a single relationship.
Fulfillment is the step that stalls most telehealth launches. Contracting and integrating a pharmacy takes weeks, and one pharmacy's state map and outages become your own.
Compounding pharmacy, in practice
Not on PharmaBro. The network of 30+ compounding pharmacies is already contracted and integrated, and orders route automatically. You can add your own pharmacy as a routing destination on Grow and above.