Compounding pharmacies sell custom-made medicines. Retail or hospital pharmacies (also known as community pharmacies) sell medicines made by manufacturers, but they can still offer certain compounded drugs. They just may not offer all the exact mixtures you need, especially if what you need must be made in a special setting to ensure safety. In that case, you may need to go to a compounding pharmacy, specifically. 

Compounding pharmacies can help:

• With strengths that are prescribed by your doctor, but not available at a regular pharmacy.

• When certain medications are experiencing shortages.

• When inactive ingredients found in commercially manufactured medications are not tolerated by a patient, such as with allergies

• When a special form of the medication is needed

In general, locally owned compounding pharmacies will not recognize your card. That's why we have partnered with a pharmacy that offers sterile and non-sterile medications with a set price, and can legally ship this to all 50 states.

Our relationship with a network of compounding pharmacies gives you the convenience of shipments available in all 50 states and posted pricing.

Some commonly compounded injectables are the active ingredients in Mounjaro, Ozempic, and Wegovy in the form of semaglutide and tirzepatide. Other commonly compounded medications are for hormone replacement and pain medications.

Your provider can prescribe several ways:

The prescription your doctor writes you may need to be modified by them so we can fill it correctly. You can give your provider this protocol.

• Give you a written prescription - you can scan and upload while ordering process

• Email you a pdf of the prescription - you can upload this while ordering

• Escribe to NCPDP: 570781

• Fax to 833-347-9329

• Call 844-400-0060

1. STERILE VS. NON-STERILE: Make sure your medication is available at the pharmacy prior to sending a prescription. Injectables and eye drops may only be obtained from a "sterile" pharmacy. Capsules, creams and ointments may be obtained from a "non-sterile" pharmacy.

2. SHIPPING: Make sure the pharmacy is able to mail to you if it is not located near you. Not all pharmacies can mail to other states, and the eligible states will change from pharmacy to pharmacy.
   ** Our compounding pharmacies can ship to all 50 states and are both sterile and non-sterile pharmacies

Yes, they fall into two categories:

503A compounding pharmacies. They can create a medication for you based on your doctor’s prescription. The compounding can’t be done by someone under supervision of a pharmacist. They’re mostly managed by the states.

503B compounding pharmacies. These are outsourcing facilities, which can make a medicine based off a prescription. They can also create large amounts of medicines and sell them to medical offices. The FDA manages most of these. They have stricter labeling rules than 503A pharmacies in an effort to avoid confusion.

Although the FDA has approved the medicines used in a compounding pharmacy, it doesn’t approve compounded drugs like they do with traditional prescription drugs, such as the dosages. The FDA can’t confirm if a compounded drug is safe or effective the way that they do with manufactured drugs..

Yes, a prescription is still required for compounded medications. If you do not have a prescription from your provider, you can schedule a telehealth appointment for many of the medications offered.

Telehealth visits and prescriptions are available for no additional cost with our Diabetes and Weight Loss programs.