Aggregated compounding data = credibility

We featured this at the Owner Summit last month, and if you weren't in the room, here's what you missed: APC has launched a first-of-its-kind compounding dispensing data reporting initiative, and we need your pharmacy to be part of it.

Right now, there is no reliable, statistically valid data on how much compounding is happening in this country. When we go to regulators and legislators to make the case for the profession, we're working with anecdotes instead of numbers. That's a problem – one drugmakers are actively exploiting. They're already lobbying Congress to mandate reporting of all compounding dispensing directly to FDA. We want to get ahead of that with accurate, profession-generated data that reflects the true diversity and breadth of compounding across the country – not a version of the story told by people with a stake in misrepresenting it.

APC has partnered with tenured researchers Dr. Hui Shao and Dr. Donghai Liang at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health to oversee our research methodology. Currently, 30 pharmacies are already contributing data, and the early findings – emphasis on early – are already telling an interesting story:

• Hormone therapies for women have consistently been the most commonly compounded therapy category over time – a useful data point when policymakers fixate on GLP-1s as the face of compounding.
• No surprise: GLP-1 compounding saw a sharp rise beginning in 2023 before pulling back as the shortage resolved – exactly the kind of trend that regulators may intuit but currently have no hard data to validate.
• Compounded prescriptions span a wide range of therapy categories including thyroid medications, ketamine, veterinary compounding, and men's health – a reminder of just how broad the profession actually is.

And that’s just high-level. To build a dataset that's statistically valid at a national scale, we need more than 15 pharmacies. We need more than 100. What we're asking is straightforward: a simple de-identified CSV file that most dispensing software can generate easily. Your data will be secure, never monetized, and never used to identify your pharmacy. Learn more and join the initiative here.