How to Verify a Compounding Pharmacy Is Licensed in Your State
A pharmacy must hold a license in the state the medication is being shipped to. Every state board of pharmacy publishes a free license lookup, so you can confirm any pharmacy's claim yourself in about two minutes — including ours.
Why the pharmacy's own state doesn't decide this
The address a medication ships to is what governs which state's rules apply to the fill. A pharmacy that compounds in Tennessee and sends a preparation to a patient in Oregon is dispensing into Oregon, and Oregon's board is the one that has to have licensed it.
A resident license is the one a pharmacy holds in the state where it physically operates. A non-resident license — sometimes called an out-of-state or mail-service license — is one it holds in a state where it has no physical location but does ship prescriptions. A pharmacy claiming broad coverage should be able to name a permit number in your state, not just describe itself as nationwide.
How to check, step by step
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Ask for the permit number in your state
Not the list of states — the actual pharmacy permit or license number issued to that pharmacy by your state's board. A pharmacy that holds one will give it to you without hesitation.
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Open your state board of pharmacy's lookup
Every jurisdiction publishes a free license verification tool. All 51 are linked in the table below, so you do not have to hunt for the right agency.
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Search by pharmacy name or permit number
Searching by number is the more reliable route, because pharmacy names are often similar and some boards list a legal name that differs from the trade name.
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Confirm the license is active and unexpired
A record can exist and still be lapsed, inactive or restricted. Read the status field and the expiration date, not just the fact that a result came back.
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Check that a pharmacist-in-charge is named
A licensed pharmacy has a named pharmacist responsible for it. Seeing that name — and being able to look that pharmacist up too — is a good sign that you are dealing with a real, supervised operation.
Find your state's board of pharmacy
All 50 states and the District of Columbia, each linking to that jurisdiction's official license verification tool.
Board websites and their search tools change from time to time. If a link has moved, searching "[state] board of pharmacy license verification" will find the current one.
What to ask before you order
- Which states are you licensed in?
- What is your pharmacy permit number in my state?
- Who is the pharmacist-in-charge?
- Are you accredited, and by whom?
- Where is the medication actually compounded?
- Will you tell me before you fill if something cannot ship to my address?
What a good answer looks like
It would be hollow to publish that checklist and not answer it ourselves, so here are our answers.
- Licensed in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
- Permit numbers, pharmacist-in-charge names and direct board-verification links published openly on our compliance page.
- PCAB accredited.
- LegitScript certified.
- Compounded in one lab in Johnson City, Tennessee.
- Compounding since 1936.
You can check every one of those on our compliance and licensure page, which lists our permit number and pharmacist-in-charge for each jurisdiction alongside a link to that state's board.