Compounding pharmacy-specific information at your fingertips

� Do you know the 25+ States that have added an "office use" of compounded medications provision to their State laws and rules? 

� Which 2 States require a written contract between health-care practitioner and compounding pharmacy in order to stock and administer "office use" compounded medications?

� What is written in the Federal Compliance Policy Guides Manual, May 2002,  concerning the compounding of drugs commercially available in the marketplace or that are essentially copies of commercially available FDA-approved drug products?

(Attention Practitioners! If you are dispensing compounded medications to patients in your office, you should read the Federal Compliance Policy Guides Manual, May 2002, Page 5, found on the Federal Laws and Guidelines page).

� Which 3 States do not require a Non-Resident Pharmacy Permit?

� Which States have adopted rules on "central filling" prescriptions?

�Which States schedule Human Chorionic Gonadotropin and Human Growth Hormone as controlled substances?

� Find the answers to these questions and much more good information on the Tips & More page. The 5 main State and Federal Regulations addressed are:

        � Central Prescription Processing

        � Sterile & Non-Sterile Compounding

        � Non-Resident Permits

        � Office Use of Compounded Meds

        � States Prescription Drug Monitoring

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How much time, effort, and resources are you or your company willing to invest in acquiring the necessary information to stay in compliance?  This information is difficult to locate, time consuming, confusing, and even contradictory at times.  We have included specific links to key compounding pharmacy compliance information, utilized often by many types of health-care professionals including compounding pharmacists, doctors, nurse practitioners, naturopaths and more.

We are pleased to offer you this simplified format to save you time and money.  Familiarize yourself with State and Federal compounding laws, and remain compliant as the laws change. 

Note: Compounding-specific regulations could not be located for a limited number of states (Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) and the District of Columbia.  Therefore, information on these few States will be limited.

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