What is a compounding pharmacy?
There are benefits associated with working with a compounding pharmacy. Our compounding pharmacy focuses on providing patients with custom pharmaceutical products. We prepare custom dosage forms when standard FDA-approved drugs fail to do so, become unavailable, or are no longer produced by a pharmaceutical manufacturer. To learn more about the FDA shortage list click here.
Compounding medicine is the process by which a trained pharmacist makes a custom medication typically for a specific patient or for specific groups of patients.
At Webster Pharmacy, we also believe that compounding professionals should receive ongoing training in compounding to stay up-to-date with this art since most pharmacists no longer practice compounding. Our pharmacist stay up to date with education from the American College of Apothecaries compounding courses.
Our compounding pharmacy can prepare:
- Hormone replacement therapy including estradiol, estriol, and testosterone containing dosage forms. To learn more click here.
- Betahistine Capsules Compounded for Meneire's Disease.
- Personalized dosage forms a custom dose of each medication for each individual.
- Medications in dosage forms that are not commercially available, such as transdermal gels, troches, “chewies”, and lollipops.
- Xylitol for the prevention of otitis media.
- Medications are free of problem-causing excipients such as dyes, sugar, lactose, or alcohol in the case of patients with autism.
- Combinations of various compatible medications into a single dosage form for easier administration and improved compliance.
- Medications that are not commercially available because of an increased demand or chemical shortage.
- Semaglutide troches
- Low-dose naltrexone capsules, solutions, and topical creams. Learn more here.
- Topical and vaginal progesterone.
- Short Chain Fatty Acid Enemas
Frequently asked questions about compounding:
Will my insurance pay for my compound? Typically not, from our experience insurance companies cover products on their formularies. Often, the bases and excipients we used are not on their formularies so they will only cover the active ingredients. Also, insurance companies do not pay for the pharmacists' time involved in preparing the compound.
Can I use my FSA or HSA account to cover compounded products? Yes!
Can you make a cheaper version of a commercially available product? Not typically, if something can not be tolerated in the commercially available dosage form we can make it. One example is if someone has a peanut allergy we can make peanut free progesterone capsules.
Does Webster Pharmacy prepare Injectable meds? We are currently working on building out our sterile pharmacy.
