Compounding

A compounding pharmacy is a pharmacy staffed with licensed pharmacists that combine, mix, or alter ingredients in medications to create custom medications tailored to the individual needs of patients. If you can tolerate the active ingredients of a certain medication but need to change the delivery method or dosage of an available FDA-approved medication, a compounding pharmacy can accommodate your needs. Compounding Pharmacies are licensed and accredited as follows: • The Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board (PCAB) has established standards for all compounding pharmacies and compounding pharmacies comply with these standards, although they are not required by law to do so. • As with other pharmacies, compounding pharmacies are licensed, regulated and inspected by the respective state in which they…

1.0 PURPOSE: To implement a process that will ensure that non-conforming batches will go through the correct process and procedure for correction/adjustment and that all documentation and subsequent batch releases are issued to the work order for filling. This procedure will also eliminate accretion of previous blends in the liquid compounding area. 2.0 SCOPE: This procedure applies to the Liquid Compounding, Pre-weigh area and Lab. 3.0 RESPONSIBILITY: It is the responsibility of the…

Many people are discouraged from saving because they don’t believe that they have enough to save. But this is a mistaken belief that will prevent you from ever being successful at saving. Regardless of how much you earn and how much you save, it is possible to accumulate a substantial amount of savings. This is possible through the miracle of compounding. Compounding is what makes saving only cents a day a worthwhile effort. To compound means to intensify, magnify or to increase. When used in…

Compounding > Absorption Enhancement Absorption enhancement is the use of functional, adhesive substances in the making of an active drug. These additional ingredients are used to improve or increase the absorption of the medicine in the body by enhancing the penetrability of a particular covering layer. The body is composed with different sheaths as a form of defense mechanism from different external interventions which includes medicines. While oral dosage is the most friendly and…

This formula is a bit more complex than the simple daily formula. The monthly compounding interest formula uses a two part formula to determine the amount of payment to be paid per the Prompt Payment Act. According to the Bureau of Fiscal Services (2015), this two part method of calculating interest involves both compounded interest and simple interest. First, the interest is compounded for the month. Then, for every day the payment goes past 30 days late, daily simple interest is cumulated. The…

Intimacy is a feeling of closeness, an emotional bond and connectedness with another person and the yearning to share each other’s most inner thoughts and feelings. Real intimacy makes us feel alive like we've been found, as if someone finally took the time to peer into the depths of our soul and see us there. Until then, until we experience true intimacy, we will feel passed over and ignored, like someone is looking right through us. Intimacy is more than being satisfied in the bedroom.…

PharMEDium Healthcare according to the company’s website[1] is a “leader in customized pharmacy sterile compounding for hospital intravenous and epidural therapies”. The company supplies hospitals and pharmacies with sterile, pre-mixed specialty medications (known as admixture compounding). PharMEDium entry on wikimapia[2] states that it “provides labelling, testing, and quality services, as well as customized drug admixtures and serves more than 1,800 hospitals across the US through its…

progression of Alzheimer’s disease without safety approval from the FDA. The drug dosage had been test for diabetes only. Since the drug was approved by the FDA for PharmaCARE, CompCare took advantage of the approval and the act has resulted in death by heart attack. Compounding is when a licensed pharmacist prepares a drug combination based on individual prescriptions. The medicine is customized to meet each individual patients needs. The difference between compounding and manufacturing the…

Recently there has been a shortage of drugs used for lethal injections, so often times it is the job of the pharmacist to compound the drugs necessary for these injections. In some states, laws have been passed that prohibit disclosing the names of the pharmacists and pharmacies who prepare these lethal injections to the public. Pharmacists adhere to the Code of Ethics and take the Oath of a Pharmacist, which could be problematic when preparing lethal injections. There are many legal and…

Alisa, You have been thorough in your investigation of the Express Scripts (Holdings). While the pharmacy management company may be a viable stock option, it is not without issues, some of which include relationship, consumer, and legal complaints and problems, requiring the company to use agency costs to rectify them. Being a healthcare provider for 26 years, personal experience has shown that the corporate governance of healthcare companies becomes progressively fraught with issues…