Question of the Day February 28, 2015 How many state pharmacy boards already have in place a pecentage rule like the one below in Ohio that only allows 5 % of the pharmacy's total dollar amount of sales of patient-specific compounded prescriptions within the past twelve months? Since some states already have this type of law why are compounding pharmacies in such an uproar of the FDA allowing 30%?

A pharmacist may compound a drug pursuant to a request made by a prescriber, or by an agent of the prescriber, for a drug to be used by the prescriber for the purpose of the direct administration to patients in the course of the prescriber's practice if the drug is compounded and provided to a prescriber by a pharmacy as an occasional exception to the normal practice of dispensing drugs pursuant to patient specific prescriptions. The pharmacy shall only provide those compounded preparations where the total value of those compounded preparations does not exceed five percent of the pharmacy's total dollar amount of sales of patient specific compounded prescriptions within the past twelve months, the preparations are not commercially available to a prescriber, and the preparations are used to treat an emergency situation, an unanticipated procedure for which a time delay would negatively affect a patient outcome, or for diagnostic purposes. [OAC Rule 4729-9-25(A)