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.

Some of the groups we provide pharmacy compounding for include:

  • Men’s Health
  • Women’s Health
  • Pediatric Health
  • Veterinary Health

Prescribes who we work with

Dermatology

pharmacy compounding

  •  It can be difficult to find the right solution for skin concerns such as acne, rosacea, eczema, psoriasis, or even cosmetic concerns such as fine lines and deep wrinkles. Many skin care products can leave unwanted side effects such as dry, thinning, red, peeling, and irritated skin. At Webster Pharmacy, compounding allows for the right medications to be customized to the patient’s needs by carefully selecting the right moisturizing agents, non-irritating bases, and hypoallergenic products to treat your concerns based on your skin type. Compounding Solutions for dermatological concerns come most often in the form of creams, ointments, gels, sprays, topical powders, and shampoos.
  • Neurologist
  • Functional Medicine Practitioners
  • Gastroenterologist & Proctologist
  • Oncologist
  • Obgyn’s
  • Urologist
  • ENT Practitioners
  • Urgent Care and Emergency Medicine

Our compounding pharmacy can prepare:

  • Hormone replacement therapy including estradiol, estriol, and testosterone containing dosage forms. To learn more click here.
  • 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.
  • 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 compound
  • Low-dose naltrexone capsules, solutions, and topical creams. Learn more here.
  • Topical and vaginal progesterone.

Our compounding pharmacy will not prepare:

  • Medications that are commercially available
  • sterile compounded products

Frequently asked questions about compounding:

  • Will my insurance pay for my compound? Typically not, from our experience insurance companies cover products on their formularies. A lot of times the bases and excipients we used are not on their formularies so they will only cover the active ingredients. They also do not pay for the pharmacist(s) 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.