Compounding pharmacies provide individualized treatment options for patients who may not be benefitting from a manufactured medication or where a more personalized treatment plan needs to be provided and a manufactured medication does not meet those requirements.
Compounding does not include making a copy of a commercially available drug product. Avrio Pharmacy follows the strict rules and regulations surrounding compounding. This includes adhering to the United States Pharmacopeia chapters <795> and <797> for non-sterile and sterile compounding.
Here are a few examples of how Avrio Pharmacy can customize medications based on a doctor’s prescription to meet a patient’s needs:
Your prescription can be phoned in by your provider, faxed by your provider, sent electronically by your provider, or you may drop off a hand-written prescription at the pharmacy. We suggest the first 3 options as compounded medications typically take longer to prepare.
Our team will create your profile and reach out to you within 24 business hours to start the process. Due to the nature of compounding medications, we do need to confirm the details of the prescription with you before we start our compounding process.
Our team will review the details of the prescription with you, including cost, estimated time to prepare the medication and options for you to receive the medication (shipping or pick-up).
Our pharmacists will review the prescription clinically before we start compounding the medication to check for any dosing or direction concerns on the prescription. If one of our pharmacists needs to consult with your provider, this may delay the prescription process. We will be consulting with your provider in these instances for your safety.
The compounding team will then review your prescription order and begin to prepare the medication. We will gather all of the necessary ingredients, any equipment needed, and any other supplies necessary to make the compound.
Our team will perform any necessary calculations and weigh out precise amounts of each ingredient.
Once the compounding process is completed, the final preparation is reviewed again by our pharmacist team before beginning to fill the prescription.
Once the compounding process is completed, the final preparation is reviewed again by our pharmacist team before beginning to fill the prescription.
Our team will prepare the medication in the required applicator, bottle, syringe, etc that we will be dispensing the medication to you.
The filled medication then receives a final review from our pharmacist team before shipping or alerting you to come pick up the prescription.
